That’s the name of an article from today’s Globe & Mail. It’s common knowledge that certain products/service cost more for women than men: hairdressing, clothes, dry cleaning, etc. This bill will be up for discussion on April 14th so I’m keeping an eye on this one.

Lorenzo Berardinetti, a backbench MPP for the governing Liberal party, has introduced a private members’ bill in the Ontario legislature that, if passed, would mean men and women would pay more similar prices for these types of goods and services.

Mr. Berardinetti said he’s looked at other jurisdictions, such as in California, which has already enacted a similar law in 1996. Another state, Massachusetts, has the Public Accommodations Act, which ensures fair gender-based pricing for hair and other cosmetology services.

A 1994 study by the California Assembly Office of Research looked at five major cities in that state. It found that 40 per cent of hairdressing salons charged women more for a hair cut than men. It also found that 64 per cent of drycleaners charged more to clean a woman’s shirt than a man’s shirt.