“The Double Tax: How Girls of Colour are Overcharged and Underpaid” by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, foreword by Chelsea Clinton
c.2025,
Portfolio
$29.00
256 pages
Your favourite Uncle will wish to hear from you in about six months, possibly sooner.
He’ll wish to speak about your pockets, initially. He’ll have an interest in your house and office and verify your reminiscence and math expertise. Good man, he’ll most likely ask about your loved ones, too. You possibly can’t keep away from Uncle Sam’s inquisitiveness, however with “The Double Tax” by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, you’ll see how one can cease the “pink tax” from being worse in the event you’re black.
When she was a baby, Anna Gifty Opoku-Ageyman observed that when it was time to go away for church, the ladies in her household struggled to prepare on time. Hair, make-up, dressing—all of it took extra effort for her mom and sisters than it did for the menfolk.
Usually talking, girls have social necessities they have to comply with that producers have seized upon, resulting in “pink taxes,” or additional prices positioned on issues for girls which are equivalent to merchandise made for males. Unfair, sure, and within the case of Black girls and life, she says, there’s usually a double-tax.
Take, as an illustration, hair.
Research present {that a} lady’s seems to be are linked to her checkbook, and hair and wonder merchandise matter. Merchandise marketed to girls value greater than these marketed to males, and the associated fee is even larger for Black girls’s merchandise—if they’ll discover them close by.
Girls go up in opposition to gender stereotypes when making use of for jobs; Black girls go up in opposition to stereotypes of gender and race, which may additionally result in “tokenism” and wage gaps. Girls get caught in lower-paying jobs and are sometimes discouraged from pursuing STEM-related careers. Nonetheless, research present that Black girls endure larger charges of this discrimination.
So what might be completed?
Opoku-Ageyman suggests funding minority companies, altering how your small business makes use of resumes, supporting higher entry to schooling for Black girls, being clear about your group’s pay scale, and revising your organization’s coverage on motherhood.
Lastly, gaps within the system should be recognized and closed. Doing so will assist now and later.
Generally, it looks as if life is all uphill. And which may be twice as apt for girls of shade, as you’ll see in “The Double Tax.”
However is that this a e-book you want?
Evaluate its first few pages, and it’s possible you’ll determine that creator Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman isn’t speaking to you. If you happen to’re a girl of shade, what’s right here is outdated information; as an alternative, she appears to be speaking extra to male supervisors, bosses, and CEOs of all races with private tales that underscore her factors. That doesn’t imply white girls gained’t be taught a number of issues – elevating one other lady is all the time motion – however males who don’t pay the pink tax will certainly get extra from it.
Though what you’ll discover here’s a bit broad, this e-book will open eyes to what’s hidden in plain sight, and also you’ll discover concepts for change that may have an effect on the established order. For that, “The Double Tax” is a singularly useful e-book.
