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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A-5
advance guard support
africus
an open book
artificial double refraction
backspace character
Ban Huai Phai
Bangladeshi monetary unit
batb
bazzites
be of some help
biotransformed
blue pus
bring something up to date
but-in
case of court decisions
chateaugay
clean bed
codeic acid
coinhabiting
contact report
cord
corner lot
countenancing
cupped washer
d'hue
despotic rule
determine on
disyndiotactic polymer
dither arm
diwanganj (dewanganj)
document retrieval service
douche canoe
ectodesmata
enlargen
figurate number
filmwise
flood gun
forceps deliveries
give someone a rocket
guaranteed surrender value
HCACHE
here, there and everywhere
HREH
indirect fluorescent antibody technique
inner bottom construction plan
intenability
iregion
iron coke
khet
kouassi
latex ingredient
libbed
lmm
load lines
macrocheilia
maksoorah
Malaxis calophylla
manakin
mid-spring
mosul(al mawsil)
multi-currency trading
mururoas
neutral-point earthing
nourishing yin for calming endogenous wind
old-town
one-women
order-to-delivery
ovaritis
pay beds
pekar
persistent cookie
point-one
primary optical system
raptery
Ražanj
readvertisement
reinforced rib
Remmingsheim
Saurol
second observer's seat
second-hand speeches
self-sacrificings
seneciphyline
series shot
sewage disposal apparatus
slant range resolution
sodium lactate
syncategorems
tank gun simulator
Tasmanian Wilderness
thymoleptics
tic paralysis
to the highest degree
tree cabash
uk evm
unpublished work
wax injection press
Wet. Christian Rudolph de
wild cinnamon
yeat