An army of young women still give up work to care for elderly parents
It disproportionally falls to daughters to do the elderly care. Photo: Getty
You may have already heard of the pink tax – where products such as razors and deodorant are more expensive when they’re marketed at women than when they’re targeting the men’s market for almost identical products.
But there’s a far steeper hidden tax on women – the so-called “daughterhood penalty”.