Our love for the Denmark’s capital city Copenhagen knows no bounds.
Not only has it brought us The Killing, one of the best crime drama’s EVER, ah-mazing street style and a fashion week that could rival some of the industries big-hitters, it’s also big on equality.
Ah, equality. Where men and women are treated the same. Where women earn the same money for doing the same job. Where women *gasp* can have a career and children without being made feel guilty about it. Where women don’t have to pay an arm and a leg to have their mop chopped every six weeks…
Yes, you read that right. Denmark is so big on gender equality that the country’s Board of Equal Treatment has effectively banned gender-based pricing plans in hair salons and has given one salon a €335 (2,500 Krone) fine for charging women more.
Many Irish salons also charge more for women’s hair cuts
A woman who was passing the salon in question saw its price list and complained to the board that the business was charging nearly €20 more for women’s haircuts with an added fee for extra long hair.
However, not everyone is happy with the board’s ruling.
A hairdressers’ trade organisation has appealed the decision saying the decision is “absurd”.
Speaking to Stylist magazine, Connie Mikkelsen, chairwoman of the Danish organisation for independent hairdressers and cosmeticians said: “It takes, quite simply, longer time with women.”
“Measuring time will lead to a discussion of hair length – what is medium length, and what is long. It will end in a series of conflicts with customers.” Mikkelsen added.
Denmark’s gender equality legislation has been ranked 7th out of 135 countries but do you think the same laws would ever pass in Ireland?
Something tells us it’ll never happen.
