Women Pay More for Laundering Shirts
If you go to the dry cleaners with a pair of pants or a suit, regardless of your gender, you will roughly pay the same price. However, if you take a woman’s shirt to get laundered, expect to pay more. It’s not because they’re made of all sorts of delicate fabrics and have intricate embroideries that complicate the laundering process, because even laundering women’s shirts that are identical to men’s is charged more.
So, what is it then? One of the reasons invoked by certain laundry companies is the industrial pressing machines that are sized for men’s shirts. However, we’re not that convinced by this reason alone, especially when shorter or smaller men are still not charged as much as women for hand-pressing.
