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
9-8 suspensions
acetylaminoacetic acid
acid leaching method
alveolus deciduus
ameloblastic hemangioma
amount of words in coincident code
anticyclones
apostelic fathers
backbone projects
bad-ball
balantidial dysentery
beam-riding guidance system
bean curd with odor
bedbug bite
branch pipe tee
camera window
catal
catenoid colony
chain rivet joint
character string manipulation package
chromaffin hormone
collector efficiency factor
commercial firm
compensatory process
computer aided diagnosis
congenital ectodermosis
continuous hot strip mill
Corispermum tylocarpum
dense soda ash
diiodo-ester
discourageth
Doutkevichiella
draw on the future
elasticity of shear
epiphysioid
episiohematoma
erythrogenic acid
flasky
for ever (and ever)
forestry semi-trailer
genus ensetes
grand theory
gray-headed pygmy woodpecker
hagioscope
hauling chain
hemiencephalon
hockey table
humoralism
hydrodesulfurized
hydrogen cooler
hypothetical distribution
income tax return
infrared fibre optics
internal gear shaving cutter
issued share
khosla
libyan islamic fighting groups
life threaten
lift-type
linka
lucanids
MadhyaBharat
manual exchanger
mean of observations
modified syntax machine
mucusy
multiacre
neural sclerosis
noncapped
nontechnically
noto-pleural muscle
oedemic
oligoarginine
pattoon
Pendra
Perequil
precast concrete pavement
pulvinar
puruitus of anemia
raisin' the bar
resistance-hysteresis characteristic
sanctimonies
scrotum swelling
seizing upon
single-cylinder test engine
spill the dope
stretched fiber
system definition preprocessor
tephrosis
terminal flagging mode
tohu-bohu
transrectal biopsy
trouser legs
two-way joists
unhoodwinked
unleavened
vasorum
Vazante
weak moment
writing-telegraph
wsb
yamsay pk.