时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:英语生活新闻


英语课
Women have to pay a lot more in stores than men for almost the same things. A new study by The Times newspaper in Britain found that many products for women cost up to twice as much as similar products for men. Researchers looked at hundreds of goods in the UK's biggest shops. They found that women's clothes and beauty products and girls' toys were on average 36 per cent more expensive than products for men and boys. One store charged over $7 more for a pink scooter aimed at girls than a black one. Another store charged double the price for ten razors simply because they were pink. Researchers said Levi's 501 jeans for women are on average 46 per cent more expensive than those for men.
 
The Times called this "sexist" pricing. Other people have called it a "gender 1 tax". Maria Miller 2, the chairwoman of the British government's women and equalities committee, called it a "rip-off". She said she would ask Britain's government to look into this to see if there was price discrimination. Britain's Financial Times (FT) newspaper said: "Perhaps women tend to be busier and have less time to shop around. Or perhaps they care more about quality when it comes to deodorant 3 or shampoo, whereas 4 men just want something cheap." However, the FT said men paid more for some things and questioned why the journalists did not look at the price differences for things that appeal more to men.
 

n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
n.磨坊主
  • Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
  • The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。
adj.除臭的;n.除臭剂
  • She applies deodorant to her armpits after she showers.沐浴后,她在腋下涂上除臭剂。
  • Spray deodorant and keep the silk garments dry before dressing.在穿衣之前,洒涂防臭剂并保持干燥。
conj.而,却,反之
  • They want a house,whereas we would rather live in a flat.他们想要一座房子,而我们宁愿住在一套房间里。
  • Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他,而有些人谴责他。
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abrasive suspension
accountless
additive operator
after culture
amph
ancestral name
Annandale
anterio-medial process maxilla
arch bar truck
assume an attitude of
balaji
biconditional operation
biophilous
bioreduction
bone ash
bueso
car-maker
celebratin
contact desulfurization
core network
critical height of subgrade
dekkor
dissenting
duplanty
dynamic current
elastomeric pad bearing
end delimiter
ethanedioyl chloride
Ethiop
filter saturation
flood fever
forward circle
Gauss magneto meter
goiter
Guttulinaceae
half-height micro winchester disk drive
heater warm-up time
heavier - than - air craft
hold-on coil
hotwork
Hungarian cat's-eye
IGU,I.G.U.
imprecations
Imyǒngsu
in-vitro activity
infrared emitting diode
inyathi (inyati)
ironmakes
jane shore
junior abbr.ination room
Kwords
langdons
leguaans
m-digallic acid
magellans
mermaidish
moral diversities
Mortgage Originator
myotenonplasty
n-pentyl acetate
narmadas
Native Signal Processing
Ndi Oru
no lag motor
olympic venue
Onesiphorus
outside price
paid editorial advertisement
personality research form (prf)
present incidence
propenyl guaethol
prudent
quadruple effect
real coefficient
restrictive ventilatory functional disturbance
saint-mont
same manner
sedimentary organic petrography
self-reactance
shaving arbor
shut off power
silver-coated copper wire
staling product
stand upon points
starter push button
string confetti
swelling behaviour number
take in
Tetracosamethylhendecasiloxane
there was
thistle
tilozepine
to make a splash
total reserve
underload breaker
updove
vaginae tendinis musculi tibialis anterioris
wabi
wideband common carrier channels
windchilled
wingwall passage
zeitnot