呼籲性別平等 澳洲咖啡館向男顧客加收額外費!

A cafe that gives women priority seating and charges men more is making waves in Melbourne, AustrAlia.

近日，一家爲女性優先安排座位、向男性收取更多費用的咖啡館在澳大利亞墨爾本引起軒然大波。

Handsome Her is a cafe where women reign supreme, with the owner, Alexandra O'Brien, calling it a space "for women, by women."

“漂亮的她”是一家女性說了算的咖啡館，其店主亞歷山德拉·奧布萊恩稱這裏是個“爲女性服務，由女性經營”的地方。

O'Brien explains that she wants the surcharge on men to address the gender pay gap.

奧布萊恩解釋稱，她想通過向男性收取額外費用來解決性別收入差距的問題。

"One week out of every month we have an 18% premium for men which is just the same as the gender pay gap," O'Brien said.

她表示，每個月有一週時間她們會對男性額外收取18%的費用，該比例剛好與性別收入差距相等。

The man tax is optional but so far, none of the cafe's male customers have refused to pay it.

儘管“男性稅”是非強制性的，但目前爲止該咖啡館未出現拒付這筆費用的男性顧客。

Staff members say the gender tax isn't aimed at excluding people but rather educating them with proceeds going to charity.

店員稱，性別稅並非爲了趕人，而是爲了教導人們，其收益將被捐給慈善機構。