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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by klipt on Saturday July 13, 2013 @05:00AM (#6037079)
By that metric, car insurance companies are also sexist - they charge individual men more because stereotypically men are riskier. Of course, that stereotype is based on data, but so is the stereotype that women take more time off when they have children.

Why is it legal to discriminate based on data in some situations but not others? I think the only solution is to remove the logical justification for discrimination: force men and women to take equal parental leave.

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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by boyter on Saturday July 13, 2013 @08:52AM (#6037432)
I have always wondered if insurance companies had the data to show that people of Asian decent (for example) have more car accidents, could they jack up their insurance premiums?
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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by jack-r-abbit on Saturday July 13, 2013 @12:02PM (#6037824)
No. That would be racist. There are all sorts of protected groups. Men is not one of them.
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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by blibble on Saturday July 13, 2013 @09:20AM (#6037474)
discrimination based on sex for insurance is now unlawful in the UK, as of last year.

as a result car insurance prices for women increased significantly, while mens remained the same.

additionally annuity rates for men dropped, while those for women remained the same (the provider is no longer allowed to factor in that men on average die several years earlier).

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Re:I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to ... by sokoloff on Saturday July 13, 2013 @12:27PM (#6037893)
That annuity case is batshit-crazy, IMO. Sad that we've gone so far in the chase for fairness that we demand equality in the name of fairness in cases where it makes no sense.

I'm all for fairness. Equal is not fair in all cases, nor is fair equal in all cases...

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