How ‘Pink Tariffs’ and Other ‘Pink’ Costs Keep Holding Women Back

And why a world that systematically impoverishes them ends up costing everyone

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I try my best not to get distracted by the constant flood of breaking news pouring in from across the Atlantic — each headline somehow more painfully ridiculous than the last — but the Trump administration’s latest wave of tariffs was hard to ignore.

And even though most of them were paused for 90 days shortly after being announced, once they kick in, their impact will likely be felt by tens of millions of Americans and people worldwide.

As those who (unfortunately) only recently learned what a ‘tariff’ actually is should know, tariffs are taxes placed on imported goods. And while they’re technically paid by the importing company, they’re usually passed on to consumers through higher prices to absorb the new import costs. Beyond raising the overall cost of living — Yale’s budget lab estimates that price increases could cost the average American household up to $3,800 this year — these higher tariffs could also hurt smaller businesses and push the global economy into a recession.

Still, Trump’s sweeping tariff policy is bound to hit one demographic especially hard: women, particularly those living in poverty or from marginalised…