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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aero-asthenia
AFCAP
aluminium rhodanide
analytic tensor field
animal-drawn
awit
backbone of percolation cluster
balance of tree
Bantustan, bantustan
baroclinically
Boulez
brandish
breathing mechanism
bucolone
canales alveolaris maxillae
centre punching
cladenchyma
clasto crystalline
cloaca (or cloacal chamber)
coal-cleaning plant
coefficient of torsion
compressing roll
coral peas
country boy
crooked chisel
curveting
date quick change
deposit tank
derne
devilled sausages
division of authority and responsibility
electromyography
epixylous
floating type bearing
gotten past
harmonic progression
heat sensitive dyes
hollow-cheeked
hucksteresses
HVI
Ibn 'Abbās
infragranitic
internal politics
interstitial material
knee hole
Koch's phenomenon
lab-tek
Lamprocystis
larix accidentalis
lime juice
luminally
Lupilichi
lychnin
microwave anechoic cell
MIDA1
mikvot
neontologist
neuraminic
non-unity
nonathlete
optical surface
privilegium
prize day
PRO Duo
programmable communication interface
pseudo-directed set
put to the touch
Płonia
quarteryearly
reconcile sb to sb else
remolino (spain)
Rifapentini
sacristry
Salix zhegushanica
Schnaid
scriber-cursor
shark-fin hydrophone
Sikkim barberry
sleepy stagger
specimen clip
sphacelotheca sorghicola
spongodiscus resurgens
sputm
ST_communicative-styles_ways-of-talking
strike sparks
substance abusers
syllabogram
tariff filing
Tartuffism, Tartufism
thiazoline
thinketh
upper respiratory tract infection
varioscale projection
various styles
Vastorf
venulose(venulosus)
vitamin K deficiency
wasc
white peak
with discretion
yyy
zolly