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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.3d ago

Women earned 81% of men's earnings in 2024, down from 83% in 2023 & 84% in 2022. The cost of feminine hygiene products has gone up 40% since 2020. The US collected $115M through tariffs on menstrual products containing cotton vs $42M in 2020.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/22/menstrual-products-tampons-feminine-care-prices-inflation.html

Misuse Case 3d ago

@amydiehl That pink tax keeps going up.

@MisuseCase @amydiehl

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority

The Pink Tax is also a wage suppression scheme.

Kristen Bell & the practice of PinkSourcing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_m5AlsQqcs

https://www.consumerreports.org/video/view/money/news/6390389822112/talking-carts-understanding-the-pink-tax/

https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/pink-tax-womens-products-price-discrimination

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1424043/us-states-sales-tax-on-period-products/

https://chatelaine.com/news/so-good/kristen-bell-spoof-video/

Keeping subpar wage levels & an underpaid female labor force was a decades long effort by Koch Network.
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/ratified/

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/equal-rights-amendment-explained

https://msmagazine.com/2023/04/11/anti-abortion-groups-era-equal-rights-amendment/

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

ProPublica