Laura Dowling

We have the purchasing power, disproportionately impacting with caring responsibilities, be it children or older family members.

We do not have access to financial choice when it comes to equal pay or pensions, even now.

We're getting charged pink tax when you look at you and your husband could go to the pharmacy, buy razors or go to the dry cleaning and face, you know, you might hand in a shirt, he might hand in a shirt.

You face very different prices because you're a female, he's a male.

His will be cheaper, yours will be more expensive.

That's pink tax.

That's pink tax.

Yeah.

Razors.

Look at razors.

Your Gillette for your legs is much more expensive.

Shaving cream, shampoo.

Pink tax now is removed on a lot of the menstrual products, not across Europe, but I know here.

Even look at sunscreen.

I mean, there's a 23% VAT rate on sunscreen.

And when you think the amount of mothers who buy for their children, I don't mean to point fingers at men, but this is a societal issue that we need to fix and amend and ultimately challenge.

We have all of that going for us and yet we're not represented in it.

in health policy or funding attached.

And people are probably screaming, looking at this going, what is she doing about it?

We're working in the Gender Equality Committee to make sure health policy is changed.