It’s been a good week for ... equality
Campaigners are celebrating after supermarket chain Tesco cut the price of women's disposable razors to match that of a similar product for men.
The move is a victory for activists who demanded an end to what they saw as sexist pricing on the high street.
Last year campaigners highlighted the higher price of many toiletries marketed at women compared to the lower price of similar goods for men.
All of the big four supermarkets were criticised.
In this case, Tesco was charging twice as much for a packet of women's razors compared with ones for men.
In a letter, Tesco said: "Following an internal review and discussions with our suppliers, we have acted on concerns about the difference in price of our female and male disposable twin-blade razors."
The world might be our oxter, but it’s mind-boggling that we live in a society divided by boy razors and girl razors.
If women are daft enough to pay twice the price for a razor because it’s pink, I’m afraid I have little sympathy.
There are bigger equality issues against which to rail.
We could start with closing the gender pay gap. Every little helps.
It’s been a bad week for ... teabreaks
Dentists have criticised workplace “cake culture", saying the sharing of sweet treats in the office is fuelling health problems.
The Royal College of Surgeons' Faculty of Dental Surgery said eating cake and biscuits at work was contributing to obesity and poor oral health.
Tips to reducing sugar intake included keeping it for lunchtime and keeping snacks out of view.
So far, so obvious. Do those killjoys think we don’t know cakes aren’t the healthiest snack option?
Professor Nigel Hunt, dean of the faculty, helpfully points out that sugary snacks are detrimental to health and employees should make a New Year's resolution to "combat cake culture" in 2017.
"While these sweet treats might be well meaning, they are also contributing to the current obesity epidemic and poor oral health," Hunt added.
And there we were thinking carrot cake was one of our five a day.
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