[iguy]

Anyone got data? Prices change over time.

The best I could do in 5 minutes googling was newspapers complaining that, on average, men still pay more... because they drive (on average) further, in more expensive cars.

And rumours that they are setting the rates for different professions as a way to get around the rule... huge differences like this:

    Dental Nurse Less than 1pc male £840 
    Solicitor 59pc male £848 
    Sports and leisure assistants 56pc male £880 
    Civil engineer 92pc male £910 
    Social worker 21pc male £920 
    Plasterer 98pc male £950

I had an idea that retirement annuities etc, which are a much bigger deal, were much more regulated & could only price based on a few numbers. But I don't have a link.

[oligopoly]

It was big news at the time in Europe as it affected vast amount of people's bottom line (mine as well). Would be interesting to know if it was lobbied to some extend.

The premise was that women would pay the same amount as men lowering the rate (Good thing). But for everyone who have followed politics knew it's not going to be a so simple. You have countless of examples where companies just skirt around the law and it end up hurting consumers.

Pretty much sums many EU decisions. On paper they can seem decent enough but in reality not so much. And women were affected as well as you might imagine low income families took the biggest relative hit.