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
10-o-methylangustoline
a burst of applause
a hell of a lot
actual array declarator
advoked
AN148
antispray film
ASOOA
bat phone
beam casing
bilge pump
biplane
Blu.
bursting bog
bypass rectifier
cache tag
callistomyia pavonina
cannabivarin
Caretta caretta
Cecidomyia
center for women policy studies
chalkes
chitotriose
chlorocarbonate
cigar flower
cloud-drop sampler
computer program verification
constant-section beam
cooling circulation
coretta
cremersii
Crocco's equation
crosrol web purifier
cyazofamid
dangerous when wet
dialysers
discifloral
discrete component amplifier
ecomuseum
Epfendorf
female science
fluorine-containing polymer
four-axis system
free-burning rate
Gara Tenguer
get freaky
goods insurance
gorillaz
Gowers' disease
hanfling
hollow inclusion
hydrochore
ingarden
intended dividend
Jacobines
joint photographic group
land of the dead
lead pyroantimonate
life tree
liverison
Llanllyfni
maximum order control
metabolical
microlaser
minophyric texture
monials
Naujan, L.
not give sb. the time of day
not ready for data
offlinings
Opacs
optical lasers
parole of honor
pea bean
plant viruss
Pneumonostomy
potassium nickel oxalate
principal invariant of tensor
processing support
processor storage capacity
puzzlehead
R.C.Ch.
reduction by pulling and kneading
reprivatising
scrapepenny
Searchlists
separate self excitation
sound absorbing object
steering resisting torque
Stephen Girard
suckback
tempo-
thermal disturbance
tissue immunity
trophotaenie
UAH
ultra-violet light
unaddressed operation
varlet
vice-chancellor
wood moth
zarontins