Under new rules which enter force tomorrow, insurers in Europe will have to charge the same prices to women and men for the same insurance products without distinction on the grounds of sex

Moustachiod_T-Rex · 2012-12-21T14:04:33+00:00

This is interesting.

We can discriminate on age, or almost any other demographic factor, but not gender? Why not?

Sex discrimination for health insurance was recently nationally illegalised in the USA, where previously women typically paid more for insurance than men. I don't see the American federal government scrambling to make automotive insurance cost the same for men and women (where men today typically pay more).

mad33tcompynrd · 2012-12-21T18:27:46+00:00

My understanding is that insurance prices were calculated based on statistics- I thought different people paid more or less for insurance based on their demographics because certain groups of people got in more accidents. Is that not what happens at all?

2012-12-21T17:53:36+00:00

Prescribed equality does not help anyone, and usually isn't real equality at all.

x30Jx · 2012-12-21T18:09:53+00:00

Holy shit, I've always heard how male drivers pay more for insurance than females drivers because they're assessed to be more risky drivers. I've never even seen that as sexism till now. Wow, the things that are built into society that you are blind to until you look objectively. Jeez.

EDIT: Mateo -> more

firex726 · 2012-12-21T11:59:38+00:00

I notice that they are going to put the prices up for women, not down for men. Not an MRM issue, but annoying.

HumanMob · 2012-12-21T21:04:04+00:00

These comments are making me confused, it's a good thing that things are going gender-neutral right? Once car insurance gets equalized i think we can be happy with this.

radamanthine · 2012-12-21T15:06:58+00:00

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ZorbaTHut · 2012-12-21T16:34:54+00:00

How hard would it be to cut a price for insurance for each person, based on their specifics? Things like driving record and overall health could give better divers a discount and overly sick people less of one. That way the bulk of the insurers are not subsidizing other people.

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