Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Slams 'Pink Tax'; Netizens Join Discussion On Gender Bias --Details Here

New Delhi: Biotechnology industry veteran and Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has shared an intriguing video in which a person has compared various products of similar category from the male and female pricing perspective.

Reacting strongly against what has been described as 'Pink Tax' in the video, Shaw has even said that people should be "shunning such products".

Shaw posted the video on X (Formerly twitter), in which a man argues how similar products of same category, quantity and size meant for both women and men are priced differently and higher.

Shaw tweeted, "Pink Tax! A shameful gender bias that women must respond to by shunning such products!"

Pink Tax! A shameful gender bias that women must respond to by shunning such products! pic.twitter.com/U3ZQm2s7W9 — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (@kiranshaw) March 12, 2024

Netizens soon started pouring comments on the post with many believing that gender equality is the need of the hour.

Actually cos are charging and earning profit. Why call it tax ? Just to absolve the companies? And if both products are exactly same in ingredients and effect why buy those ping products? — Vishal _____ __ (@vishalkmumbai) March 13, 2024

Not only that - the quality of products for women (think shirts) is often lower than that for men.

Plus there are 'savings' for manufacturers as many standard women's clothes don't have pockets, whereas men's clothes always do - yes, even when the 'man' is a 10-month baby — Devina Mehra (@devinamehra) March 13, 2024

_ correct

We see such blatant markups for many other 'women' labelled common items too — Bharat citizen (@Hyd872Citizen) March 13, 2024

Absolutely agree. Question is how should we get around it? It seems a hard choice between buying male products or not buying these products at all.

— Madhureeta Anand (@MadhureetaA) March 13, 2024

PM Sh @narendramodi Ji @PMOIndia @FinMinIndia @nsitharaman @MinistryWCD @smritiirani
What is This!
Need of the hour is Gender Equality & Gender Empowerment
Appreciate immediate course correction
and Also Ensure Safety Security and Empwerment starting with Rewfroms in_ — pradeep kumar kunche (@pradeepkunche) March 13, 2024

What Is Pink Tax?

Pink Tax should not be confused as a government tax, it is not so. Pink Tax, is a commonly used term to describe the disparity in pricing of a product on the basis of gender-- where certain products are priced higher for women than for men.