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
Abbas, I(the Great)
aino shima
aircraft radome
all-smile
Alphonsea
angelization
any idea
audit clerk
bacteriostasis agent
bear-trap dams
bench hand
Bohemian-Moravian Highlands
borrower lender relationship
buckminsterfullerenes
chalcosite (chalcocite)
colorful projective luminaire for large screen
combinatorial optimization problem
compressional wave velocity
coupler reciprocal method
cylinder head stud
dismisseth
do no less
electronic locking
energy flow model
Exton-Rose test
filling soap
flag-carriers
gasoline price
gervit
glued adhesion
Gotthardite
hand press packed pale
handling locking conflicts
hevea brasilienses
hierbas
high wax oil
high-speed data link
holiday center
hot star
hot wire
Huberdin
hydrolyzable nitrogen
instant center/centre method
intraileally
It's a thought.
jaghire
javac
kaito-
knock someone's socks off
liquid method
lucicutia intermedia
maledict
maximum obstacle-crossing height of one front wheel
metalcutting
minor axis of cam
monascus colo(u)r
Moshny
Mountain Brook
mued
natural subirrigation
odylic
onthophagus (gibbonthophagus) taurinus
operation x
ornithorhynchidaes
p-ethyl hydroxybenzene
Palaio Faliro
paper-hanger
person of substance
photoelectron limited resolving power
physiological psychology
pink ash
protracheata
pully tap
qualitative test for glucose in urine
quinology
radon seed
remortgaging
renewable nature resources
roll-necks
safe-c
sectorings
segmented model
self neglect
self-healing breakdown
self-propelled power generating car
serous canal
server push-pull
ship return
shortcut method
static reflector
stone-masons
subterranean line
sulfantimon
target function
throttle-control bell crank lever
Timadit
unkilted
untanks
whuppin
with force and arms
xylene poisoning
Yellen clamp