Women looking for bargains probably won’t find them at Customs. The burden of tariffs falls heavily — and in many cases exclusively — on the consumer. So when the tariff on women’s leather shoes is higher than the tariff on men’s leather shoes (which it is), women feel the pain, says Lori Taylor, a Bush School associate professor.
Taylor, who directs the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics and Public Policy, and Jawad Dar, a graduate research assistant, say that in many cases, there is no difference in the tariff for men’s goods and women’s goods. However, in a surprising number of cases, there are large differences.
Black teachers in the segregated South – especially women – played critical roles in preserving knowledge that might’ve otherwise been lost to history.