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Students from East China University of Political Science and Law have stepped up again. The story goes back to last year. Zhang, a student from East China University of Political Science and Law, bought a facial cleanser specifically for women from L’Oréal online for 149 yuan. After paying, she saw a men’s facial cleanser on the store’s homepage. It had the same functions as the one she bought, but it only cost 82 yuan. She asked the customer service for the ingredient lists of both products and found that their ingredients and main functions were almost identical. For two almost identical products, the price difference was 67 yuan, solely due to the difference in target consumer gender. Isn’t this a form of price discrimination against women? Zhang, feeling indignant, teamed up with several other female students to form the “Pink Tax Avengers” and prepared to sue L’Oréal. They communicated with the merchant, filed complaints on e-commerce platforms and with 12315; they created a survey about “Pink Tax”; they tried writing a formal lawsuit for the first time, consulting…