Gender inequality in hairdressers charges

Chickabiddybex

I don't know what decade most of you are living in. It's disgusting how sexist to both men and women some people are and it's baffling how out of touch with the current styles of hair people are too!

Men have a buzz cut and women have complicated flowing locks do they?

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arcon5

Ye , because those pictures are representative of society as a whole!

The job of a hair dresser and of a barber are not necessarily the same. I know somebody who did hair dressing at college and was excellent at it, but age was never taught to cut gents hair so ended up being taught my a hair dresser friend who was taught by a colleague in a hair salon.
The skill set is different.

It's also a supply and demand thing - more woman use salons than men (many men will cut their own with the use of a cutter thingy), woman's jar takes longer. There are loads of in/out barbers on the high street. We have one for £4 here - would take 5 minutes, how many woman's hair could be cut in this time? Not many

aileth

My OH's hair takes 10 minutes.

My hair takes an hour when I get it cut.

Of course the hour will cost more than the 10 minutes!

WTFH

My wife cuts my hair every 3-4 weeks. Cost? Well maybe about 5p a year in electricity for the razor.

She won't let me cut her hair with a razor.

Now who's showing gender inequality?

flagstones

There seem to be a lot of people missing my point. The different prices are in the same hairdresser - so its not a question of barbers v hairdressers, or v at home which I agree are all different services.

I am querying whether charging a different amount based on ladies/men is inequality. I don't agree all women's cuts take longer and men's a shorter time either.

thriftymanc

flagstones wrote: »

I am querying whether charging a different amount based on ladies/men is inequality. I don't agree all women's cuts take longer and men's a shorter time either.

I'm with you on this. Me (female) and OH (male) both used to go to the same hairdresser. OH would be in there for an hour and a half getting his hair cut just so, loads of products, blowdrying and straightening to make his thick fluffy hair lie straight and smooth. I'd go in for about half an hour for a quick trim, no products, no blowdrying, no styling (I always do that myself at home as no one ever gets it right!) - my hair's about the same length as OH and a relatively 'boyish' style compared to some women. We always used the same level of stylist, often the exact same person. OH was charged £35 and I was charged £50. I do it myself now. (What's more annoying is that I could do OH's too but he won't let me!) In this instance there is no justification for the prices they charge when it takes them a lot more time an effort on the man's hair than the woman's.

Why can't it be like any other service where you get a quote? They can give guide prices, fine, but when you phone up to make an appointment or go in for a consultation, they should work out exactly what they're doing and charge accordingly. Imagine you've got a two-bedroom house and your neighbour has a one-bedroom house. You've got identical bathrooms and want identical work doing. You both get the same fitter round for a quote and he wants to charge you twice as much for the same work because you have two bedrooms and your neighbour has one. Would this happen? No, because the bedrooms aren't the relevant part of the house. Transfer this to a human body. Hairdressers: you are doing my hair, not my tits, they are not relevant so leave them out of the equation please!