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。
学英语单词
adenasthenia gastrica
analog simultaneous voice and data
anti-hazing
approximate length
aromatics modifier
ash off-takes
basylous
Bedkow
break-bone fever
Carlantino
characterization foctor
charter court
cold hammering
cold setting
consistent high nourishment rearing method
cultural conditioning
deaccenting
decohering
deep thinker
densification of points
dragshovel
dwarf tulips
ectodynamorphic soils
electrostatic pull
failure driven learning
firinge value
flexibly
flock of sea birds
forkiest
Fraunhofer component
FRIPHH
galbanol
gamache
girdwood
glow discharge deposition
grammaticizable
half-arc angle
harpalejeunea filicuspis
herzlia
Hesperetin-5-glucoside
highbrook
hydrofosterite
in close-up
in-dialing
itemize the articles
Karrer, Paul
laminoechography
Lee Yuen Kam
liquid asphaltic products
master cylinder push rod
mechanoresponsive
metaphysical realism
minae
mistake one's man
mitogenic
Modern French
multi-species mature ecosystem
myelemia
Ngoso
non-wood based hard fibreboard
novelised
Nowe Miasteczko
Oberheimbach
paranatellon
penal prosecution
perseverances
pill-takings
plumbagella type
pradhana
principal book
privateerism
profit-push
Quercus bicolor
Radio station.
re-printed
relief engraving
ronsmans
salinferous
salpingopalatine folds.
scrap-heap policy
Scrophularia moellendorffii
searchant
shear slide
short-sonar
Sigean
sludge pit, sludge pond
spectioneer
stationary line
stockinged
support-plate
Swanscombe, man
tangible assets
tansong (dansong)
tavs
teamkillers
thin flat chisel
togrind
trackmos
train speed monitoring device
transverse engine
tri-ridged
vice-regal