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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abu dhabis
acylatior
Antistaphyoloysin
astr.
avian ingestion
Bacillus proteus fluorescens
bat-eyed
be zealous in
business share
cantaloops
charging source
Chillingollah
coefficient of rolling friction
compound galbanum plaster
contact slipper
cpde
critical state model
cumulonimbus mammatus
debt rating
definition phase
desired signal
doggone
domestic helps
dunked
duty of support
European blackbird
excrementizing
fast red
fieldbook
fodderings
for your consideration
four quadrant multiplier
gape for
gas gauges
gaseous cavitation
genus moloches
genus Sophora
get the last dance
gravedinous
hawaiiensis
hemagonium
high level multiplexer
hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid
illumination climater
in-service education program
indoor rainwater system
Information and Content Exchange
kang-sheng shai
Kumënskiy Rayon
length of repair position
living-together
loculaments
M. R. P.
merge network
metallurgical chemistry
misyars
Montrose
motor fibers
nannastacid
Nazilike
non-bearing partition
nonequispaced data
nonpharmacist
oblique conoid
on a line
ordinary gear train
oriental emerald
out-pensioner
outro
packing worm
pasture breeding
pay according to the arranged price
pellicular electronics
pipe-like
plumbous hydroxide
poll train
portable downdraft submersible pump
project planner
qilin
quinacillin
rami anterior lateralis
regnyl
renominate
rusa deer
scillatriose
seek only time
Sertoli cells
service craft
severe drought year
Simplon Tun.
soft landing TV camera
starfury
subatmospheric discharge
tetraketides
thin-section casting
threaded insert
transmuting
u-b color index
underground distribution
unlawful keeping
vrain