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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-micin
4-chloro-2-oxo-3-benzothiazolin-acetic acid
adbasal
aeroglycan
alkoxysilane
allegiantly
aminobutanoate
aneos
antiplicate
arcarius
ballhawks
behind back
boil-stain of cloth
boru
botswana monetary units
boumbe i
carpinus betula
chronotopes
cichorium intybuss
classroom curriculum
company training allowance
contact lubrication
Coragyps atratus
Debt-To-Capital Ratio
deck clause
degreased bone
desulphurised
Dicontomycophyta
dubelman
electronic key generator
electronic retina
equ-
external fertilization
extrapolated height
faldstools
fast-tracking
Fibercon
foster scanner
Ganhoué
gross sale
hanneys
heavy lift crane
helium-weak star
hole card
horn relay
illegal client acts
impact behavior
Incisura vertebralis inferior
inter-locking
jinnee
keratoplasty
kiffed
length. capacity and weight
lesser whitethroats
light center (of a source)
liquid-ring pump
lupicide
Magendie's foramina
media guru
megacythere taiwanica
Meina
metallocentre
middle-weights
minimum normal burst altitude
mutina
Målφy
Neanderthal man
nelsonites
nonafferent
nonindexable address tag
Nujiang River
oval orifice
Pas-de-Calais
pick one's teeth
pol sci.
polyunsaturated fatty acids
power supply electrode
Profumo
pseudokeloidal
racementhol
registered architect
Requinomycin
ring-formed clear-cutting
ring-porous wood
sailor's hitches
Santo Stefano Belbo
SGL encoder
somadendritic
spindle-shanked
steam fire smothering system
steering drag
Thane's method
tinned goods
to destine to
Trumpish
vacuum boost brake
vantplate
Vorob'yëvskiy Rayon
Vrubivs'kyy
Woe betide you
Zelënyy, Ostrov
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