Thursday, August 14, 2008

Sexism as a Business Strategy

Nevada's Civil Rights Panel has ruled that businesses that charge higher fees for men than for women are guilty of discrimination.
Officials from the Las Vegas Athletic Club did not return calls for comment, but according to the ruling, the company defended the price breaks for women by saying that men cost the club more, in part because they are more likely to fail to pay their bills.

“While this may be true, this reason is not persuasive,” the ruling stated.
The ruling will likely have an adverse effect on Vegas' topless pools, where men are generally charged 5 times as much as women for admission.

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1 comment:

Rick said...

"The ruling will likely have an adverse effect on Vegas' topless pools, where men are generally charged 5 times as much as women for admission."

This is just my opinion but I suspect that hotels in Vegas with topless pools see it as a way to discretely use their female guests as eye candy to draw more men to the pool who are pay the higher fees and buy overpriced drinks in order to gawk at topless women.