{"id":40639,"date":"2017-01-14T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T06:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/eus-gender-ruling-on-car-insurance-has-made-inequality-worse\/"},"modified":"2017-01-14T14:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T07:28:31","slug":"eus-gender-ruling-on-car-insurance-has-made-inequality-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/eus-gender-ruling-on-car-insurance-has-made-inequality-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"EU\u2019s gender ruling on car insurance has made inequality worse"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIt said car insurance firms couldn\u2019t discriminate between the sexes … since then men have seen a four-fold rise in premiumsIn December 2012 the EU introduced controversial new rules insisting that car insurance companies no longer discriminate on the basis of gender. Until then, men were being routinely charged more than women, but after the European Court of Justice ruled that different premiums for men and women purely on the grounds of sex \u201cwere incompatible with the principle of unisex pricing included in EU gender equality legislation\u201d, they had to go \u2013 even if it meant women would have to pay more as the gap between the sexes closed.But what has happened since the rules came into force? Instead of the gap between men\u2019s and women\u2019s premiums narrowing, as expected, it has actually widened. In 2012, men on average paid \u00a327 more for a car insurance policy than a woman, but rather remarkably they now they pay \u00a3101 more \u2013 nearly a four-fold increase. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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