age, reveals a new survey conducted by the british bank Halifax. Based on the results of the survey, which involved over 1,200 children and 575 adults from Britain, the parents give 12% more allowance to their sons compared with their daughters. The difference in fact between the money given to the two leaves has increased dramatically from last year, which was just 2%.
In 2016, the boys between 8-15 years of age were receiving an average of 8,9 per week, while the girls were certainly more “draped”, after receiving every week at 7.9 euro. The significant increase of the difference between the allowance received by the boys and that they take the girls surprised even the team conducting every year the survey, said a spokesman for the Halifax in the Independent newspaper. According to the economist, Lindsay Cook, co-founder of the website Money Fight Club, the injustice of this to the detriment of girls may be due to the fact that many teenage girls are embarrassed to ask for a raise in their allowance.
“As is often the case in modern work environments, if you don’t ask for what you deserve finally I can’t take it. In my opinion, the girls have to practice from small to claiming equal pay with the boys, before they start their professional life. It is very uncommon for women not to ask for a raise, but to wait to give them their employer alone,” said the economist.
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