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Because it’s not covered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.

While the user did ask why it's legal, I think it's clear that the question is "why is it /ethical/ to discriminate in this case and not that?".

Saying that Law X exists answers the literal question, but not the implied actual question.

But no one said it is was ethical in the case where it is legal, so if that was the intended question, not only is it phrased wrong but it starts from an unsupported premise, to wit, that people in the discussion believe that one is ethical and the other not.

If someone asks why something is legal, the answer they are looking for is never “because the laws allow it”.

It can be “which laws allow it” and the person answered that.

Or by other laws that prohibit discrimination.

But of course, there could be laws that prohibit linking vehicle insurance cost to gender.

My solution, when I've been married, has been having my wife get insurance, and add me as a driver. But that doesn't matter so much now that I'm older.

Edit: I do agree that discrimination by gender is fundamentally unethical.

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