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
a pair of colour
absorption stage
accessible state
acrylic fibre
aschmanns
automatic wage adjustment
avolates
Aykino
band switch
before you know it
bell-mouth joint
Bi'r ash Shuwayrif
boost capacitor
borehole acoustic television logger
broose
cascade imaging system
close-range photography
coeswrench
collateral management
coriar
Cornafulla
courtisane
Crepis karelinii
cross tool carriage
cyclohexanecarbohydrazonoyl
D glass fibre
decentralized control flow system
dentoalveolar
dexamethasone
digital input group voltage
drug localization
drugproofing
emergent pencil
endo-exoteric
endodontias
enrichmentmode
EUMED
face mould
fear-riddens
fissionable nuclide carbide and nitride fuel
flying leap
flywheel end
formal neuron
freight indemnity
furthy
ganay
genderfuckers
genital armature
Gumicheon
habyrgen
hautbois(strawgerry)
Herminium macrophyllum
impedance watt
inter branch account
irreversible conversion
jubouri
kovner
Lac Thuy
lower nephron nephrosis
major smuggler
microcontainer
midwaters
miliutin
milk-float
morel morello (cherry)
mutual-funds
myth making
new brooms
no-reply call
overcorrect
paint thinner
pedder street
permanent snow field
pestel
phenoxaphosphinine
photogenic bacteria
pickled cucumbers
principal diagonal
rated lightning impulse withstand voltage
recursive least-squares
regular-way delivery
relay selecting circuit
Russlish
sabretache
sambhar
shic
Sinobambusa laeta
smilchin
steady state pressure
Sterculia scaphigera wall.
strickman
supracoracoid foramen
surveyingly
taxable on dividend income
travelling grate stoker
triangular bone of tarsus
tube expander
underwater sightseeing boat
unobeyable
vertical control points
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