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The secret tax on women’s time

hen studies revealed the so-called pink tax, showing in 2015 that personal hygiene products “for her” cost 13% more than similar products for men, it caused outrage and action. But there is also an unaddressed pink tax on women’s time: a global epidemic of women lacking time to conduct the activities of their everyday lives that men simply do not experience. In fact,

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