„Pink Tax“ as a Competition Law Infringement?

In a recent contribution in Austrian newspaper Der Standard, Vicky Robertson and Christian Berger point to gender-specific aspects of competition policy (accessible here, in German). They shed a light on how competition replicates inequalities in society, discuss the influence of female heads of competition authorities, and highlight the importance of considering gender-specific aspects in the competition analysis – as was recently suggested in the OECD’s Gender Inclusive Competition Toolkit.