Why Women Pay More : How to Avoid Marketplace Perils - Softcover

Frances Cerra Whittelsey; Ralph Nader

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0936758341 ISBN 13: 9780936758343

Publisher: Center for Study of Responsive Law, 1993

Synopsis

Why Women Pay More : How to Avoid Marketplace Perils

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When women get divorced or separated, they sometimes find they can't get credit....If you are married, divorced, separated or widowed, you should check with your credit bureau to ensure that your shared credit history has been reported under your name.

As for the issue of free alterations, a few years ago, a California executive got fed up after she was charged $40 to alter a $1500 evening gown, while her husband received extensive alterations to his tuxedo, free. This woman, Lorie Anderson, and a friend and co-worker, Muriel Kaylin Mabry, who also was charged for alterations at the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, decided to sue. They enlisted the aid of a well-known sex discrimination lawyer, Gloria Alred, and won a class action suit against Saks.

The suit never went to court. Saks settled, claiming they had done nothing wrong, but had always charged men and women the same price for equivalent alterations. Despite this explanation, Saks eliminated or reduced prices for some alterations to hems, sleeves and waists in its 45 branches nationwide. Anderson and Mabry said, with satisfaction, that the change would save them hundreds of dollars a year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for Study of Responsive Law
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0936758341
• ISBN 13: 9780936758343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 193