Protein Powder
At first glance, protein powders customized for women seem like a good idea – boys and girls are different, right? – and they might be if there was any difference in the formulation. However, one popular chain’s best-selling “men’s” protein powder and “women’s” protein powder have exactly the same ingredients and cost exactly the same. The gender difference comes in how much you get for your money with the women’s product weighing less than the men and while the labels show equal numbers of servings per container, the women’s serving size is smaller.
Worth it? Protein is protein, regardless the color of the package. If you are looking for targeted supplements to help you with female issues like extra iron for menstrual bleeding or calcium for bone strength then buy those separately.
Pink is a hustle. Susan G komen proved that to us all earlier this year. Companies love that women will pay extra to look good in the gym.
While I enjoyed reading the article, and I believe to some extent it is true that women are willing to pay more and companies can take advantage of this, as the article notes, the yellow gloves were also more expensive. You often pay more for a product that is colored rather than standard black. I recently bought an espresso machine and paid $50 more for a red one. Plenty of guys I know pay more for color.
Sigh… I actually bought the pink boxing gloves!!! And I love them. However, it does irk me that women are charged more for products in general. Maybe someone will start an online petition to send to the companies and stop the madness!!!
I have to admit I LLLOVE the pink!!!! I have had my pink boxing gloves for about 8 years now (imagine how much they cost back then). I have always been a tomboy and was a jockette growing up. When I came into my girliness, I wanted something feminine, I already have a big foot so could not get the cute girlie anything, so when equipment started coming out in pink , I snapped it up. As a SCUBA diver, I started off with pink accessories but could not find a good pair of pink fins in my size. Sure I could get them if I wanted to order about 200 pairs in an XL size. One thing I do find with pink accessories is as a diver, it makes other women comfortable trying the sport that is dominated by men.
I too hate pink and find it insulting that for it to be for a women, it has to be pink. I also think it is a racket. But if pink makes you move, more power to you.