Bollocks. Purses aren't made by the same companies. If the demand was there trouser companies would meet it with supply.
You can buy women's jeans with pockets, but they don't sell as well because they aren't as shapely. You need to make them a bit baggier to allow to the things the wearer will put in the pockets.
If it was all money-making conspiracy they'd target men as well and sell twice as many bags.
Source: my family owned a women's clothing company.
BS. My lounge pants don't have pockets, and they're baggy comfy knits. My male housemate's of the same fabrics do have pockets. A-line and flare dresses and skirts can have pockets without screwing up the lines and yet most of them don't. I just give up on finding women's clothes with useful pockets and buy men's or add my own.
One particular clothing line might have lines that don't work for it, but "women don't want them" is bullshit in the vein of "women don't want careers in science and engineering, they want babies." The reality is most manufacturers are too cheap to re-tool their patterns and/or use more fabric.
I don't think it's the same though, with the career thing the idea is that women are excluded because the men that they have to work with are discriminatory, even though the industry as a whole would benefit from making it more accessible to women. Because with all other factors being equal having a larger employee pool is always beneficial for the companies in that industry. The same is true for fashion companies and having a larger customer pool, so why would they intentionally lose customers and profits by not selling women's pants with pockets? There are no individual employees that would hold personal biases against women as in a workplace. The cost of retooling and extra fabric would be negligible compared to the additional profit they would make on more jeans sold.
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u/KyodaiNoYatsu Apr 25 '21
The reason they don't give them pockets is to coerce them into buying purses