XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON DEC 02, 2002 21:05:22 ET XXXXX
HAIR FAIR? KERRY CUT COST HALF OF HILLARY'S; SENATOR CONFIRMS CRISTOPHE CLIP
**Update**
Senator John Kerry confirmed late Monday that he's been visiting Washington's famed Cristophe Salon for haircuts, where he has been paying $75 a visit -- half of what Senator Hillary Clinton has been charged for a similar shampoo, cut and blow-dry!
This report revealed on Monday how Kerry, a self-described "Man of The People", has been quietly visiting Cristophe's, getting cleaned and coifed by Isabel Goetz, Hillary Clinton's hairstylist.
A well-placed source claimed Kerry had been charged Isabel's goign rate of $150 for the trim; the WASINGTONIAN also reported that Ms. Goetz charges $150 a visit.
"Isabel charges Senator Clinton $150, but charges Senator Kerry $75?" challanged one Hill source. "I think Hillary needs to speak out for all women everywhere against the discrimination, if this is true!"
The District of Columbia's Human Rights Act prohibits gender-based pricing.
Hair designer Isabel Goetz could not be reached for comment.
The Kerry $75 haircut versus Hillary's $150 one raises an important civil rights issue waged by the National Organization for Women, among others. Hair salons have long employed practices that charge women prices far greater than their male counterparts.
"There is a growing consensus that basing prices upon gender is wrong and illegal and that increasingly it will fall, either under existing sex-discrimination suits or new ones as they may be passed," says John Banzhaf, a law professor at The George Washington University Law School in Washington.
In 1995, the Republican governor of California Pete Wilson signed a law that did away with different prices based on different genders for haircutting.
The Gender Tax Repeal Act, also known as the Equal Pricing Act, made the state the first in the nation to specifically prohibit gender discrimination in pricing. Democratic Assemb. Jackie Speier introduced the bill, fought for it and got it passed.
Ms. Speier to Washington!
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