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As with most service industries, the main cost of a laundry is labor costs. But it's hard for us to imagine how washing a woman's homegrown shirt would require a higher labor cost than washing a man's shirt? Whether it's a men's or a woman's shirt, isn't it all thrown in the washing machine and it's over?

In a laundromat in a small town, it costs 10 yuan to dry clean and iron a collared shirt for a woman and only 5 yuan for a man's shirt, and it is always more expensive to clean women's clothing than to clean men's clothing. Are laundry owners sexist?

Although surveys show that women tend to spend more than men on expensive items that can be bargained, such as jewelry, jewelry, and cars, laundry services are not considered expensive items to be consumed. Laundries often offer different prices for men's and women's clothing, and neither women nor men have any intention of haggling with the laundromat for this.

In general, laundries are a highly competitive industry. If the laundry is charging a much higher price than the cost of disposing of women's shirts, then any laundry that does not perform well only needs to advertise that the cleaning of men's and women's shirts will be priced at a unified price, and in a few days, it will occupy a considerable share of the local cleaning market. However, in reality, there are no cleaning companies that do this, and what we see is still that there are different prices for cleaning men's and women's shirts, regardless of whether the company is new or has been in operation for a while. The only explanation for this problem can only be that the cost of handling men's and women's shirts is different.

As with most service industries, the main cost of a laundry is labor costs. But it's hard for us to imagine how washing a woman's homegrown shirt would require a higher labor cost than washing a man's shirt? Whether it's a men's or a woman's shirt, isn't it all thrown in the washing machine and it's over?

Further analysis, there are generally two parts of washing clothes: first washing with water, and then ironing. Since the cleaning is the same, the extra cost should be in the ironing process. In order to improve work efficiency, laundry companies nowadays generally iron shirts with standard ironing machines. However, if the shirt is too small, with too many buttons, and too many details, it will no longer be able to be ironed on the ironing machine. This is because a standard ironer grips the shirt tightly from the hem, leaving a particularly noticeable indentation in the fabric. So, what about those shirts that can't be handled with an ironer? Obviously, it can only be ironed by hand.

In this way, the problem arises, ironing by hand can be time-consuming and laborious. Because most of the women's earthen shirts are complicated in workmanship, and there are many decorations such as buttons and bows, they are easy to be damaged by the ironer, unlike men's shirts that are as convenient and simple as when handling. And most women don't tuck their shirts into pants or skirts, and if the hem of the dress is indented by the ironer, it will be unacceptable to the woman who is demanding about the outside world. On the other hand, men will tuck shirts into pants, or even if they don't tuck into pants, men don't have such high requirements for clothes, and indentations are not a big problem. Of course, the possibility of men's shirts being ironed is also very small.

On the other hand, laundry washing some high-end fabrics often has to bear greater risks, and producers are bound to avoid risks in order to survive, so this part of the risk cost is also passed on to consumers who clean high-end fabrics. Women's clothing is often made of more upscale and elaborate fabrics than men's clothing, so it's easy to understand why washing women's shirts is more expensive than men's shirts.

If you are a woman, if you want to dress more elegantly than men, then pay for your elegant laundry! This also shows that women are not as sensitive to laundry costs as men.