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
acadmie
adenomyotic
administration and operation cost
alternating flux
Ardleigh
believe a word
block section
blunt nosed body
bulcking
clutz
cocktail belt
Coetzeesberg
concretes
counterfeitings
cow-grass
dahiyat
daily traffic pattern
Dalbergia sericea
day-dawn
deep-seated weathering
defamation law
demonomy
dextrowarfarin
dilek dagi
dimensional relation
ecoteches
effectiveness of audit
efficiency of supply
elutor
endothoracic pharyngeal
enterprise theory
Estreito, Sa.da
Eumicrotremus
extra-fine
f cells
FAJ
fallout detector
Fanling Highway
fat cell
feed heat exchanger
florida horse leech
geostrophically
glucuronide acid sulfate
glue on
ground telemetering equipment
grow seedlings
HA2
Hampshirin
IC integrated circuit
inghelbrechts
iron deposit
isoaminilecyclamate
Kamyshlybash
lacquer box
lobus azygos
machine-made lace
magmosphere
meconpsis chelidonifolia bur. et franch.
micrometer adjusting screw
might and main
Misakubo
multiple spindle semi automatic lathe
nircs
nonalkaloid
novorossiysk
obsolescence of information
occidentalizing
order plectognathis
Otochilus lancilabius
output enabled time
parameter configuration
pellegrinis
pneumatic retinopexy
potyvirus ornithogalum mosaic virus
public green space quota
pull to pieces
pulse pileup
pulse-duration modulation-frequency modulation
quartz latite
quaternionic
R.S.D.
red-chestnut
risk prophecy
rubber spring
sales resistances
sampling distribution
selective curve
shackell
single interface
slemmons
society people
television viewer
Tracheophyta
tryless
unassistedly
usherettes
venae brachiocephalica
Verneuil-sur-Indre
whopped
windmiller
winner's
yardsale