Apparently Denmark needs a real lesson on the Laws of Supply and Demand:

Denmark, which like its Nordic
neighbours prides itself on promoting equal treatment for men and women,
has taken gender equality all the way to the beauty salon.

A
ruling last month by Denmark’s Board of Equal Treatment effectively
stated that price differences between men’s and women’s haircuts were
illegal.

It ordered a
salon advertising women’s haircuts for 528 crowns – £59 – and men’s
haircuts for 428 crowns – £48 – plus an extra fee for long hair, to pay
2,500 crowns – £281- to a woman who had filed a complaint.

Now, a trade organisation for
hairdressers has called the decision absurd, saying it will become a
nightmare to set prices for customers and warning of ‘pricing chaos’.’It
takes, quite simply, longer time with women,’ said Connie Mikkelsen,
chairwoman of the Danish organisation for independent hairdressers and
cosmeticians.
The
board’s decision has been appealed and a court will determine whether
hairdressers need to find a new way to charge for their services, in the
length of time, or the standard of the cut.

It doesn’t take a genius to understand why women’s haircuts cost more than men’s do. When a chap goes into a barber shop, unless he’s an emo idiot or gay, it doesn’t take more than 20 minutes to cut his hair reasonably professionally. When a sheila does the same, it takes far longer and requires far more products. Why, in the name of all that is holy, would someone be stupid enough to think that this is sexual discrimination? Oh, right, Denmark is one of the most liberal countries on Earth:

Denmark ranked seventh out of 135
countries in the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index which
benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and
health criteria