Comment: Women sellers short-changed on eBay Published on: 22 February 2016 Writing for The Conversation, Dr Elina Meliou discusses the research findings showing women are receiving on average about 80 cents for every dollar men earn when selling the same product on eBay. , On the auction website eBay, women are receiving on average about 80 cents for every dollar men earn when selling the same product, according to . We already know that products aimed at women, such as razors and deoderant, tend to be more expensive , but this research suggests that this seemingly built-in gender inequality persists even when men and women are bidding for the same thing on eBay. Considering eBay鈥檚 policy of not stating the gender of its users, the persistence of sexism 鈥� when buyers can identify a seller鈥檚 gender 鈥� points to greater disparities in other markets when gender is known. In more than half of the evaluations of sellers鈥� profiles that participants in the study were asked to conduct, the researchers found that buyers were able to identify a seller鈥檚 gender. The research, by sociologist Tamar Kricheli-Katz and economist Tali Regev, looked at data from more than a million transactions from 2009 to 2012 involving the most popular products auctioned on eBay in the US. As well as finding that women sellers were paid less for their goods than men, the research also found that women buyers tend to pay 3% more. An irony of these findings is that, on average, women sellers enjoy a higher reputation on the site and appear to be trusted more than men when it comes to accounting for the condition of used products. Despite this, women receive 97 cents for every dollar a man receives when selling the same used product. Would you expect to pay less to a woman seller?
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