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 Dutch auction
a meat market
a nice tilth
Aleurites triloba
Aliabad
assembler expression
asymmetric labeling
aunthood
Bayādah
Benguérua, I.
blemish
briony
capital market control system
casusbelli
cheilopasty
cinderella sale
cloth umbrella
cocceric acid
codonopsis radix
coppice selection system
crime fiction
Curtin John
developing dyes
discrimination in reverse
dissymmetrical impedance
double motion turbine
down antiquarks
Dresden china
Edenkoben
emergency vehicle
European yew
evidenciary
excursionise
exhaust equipment
fasciculi dorsolateralis
FCOG
Fornovo di Taro
furst
gagle
grain-boundary brittleness
Haimbach
hatchboard
hits the skids
hypercolumns
in-crowd
ink stamping
intercostal herpes
judgment debt
jusi
koike
La Son
laboratory method
lead ferrocyanide
Lindenow Fd.
linen canvas
lz78 compression
mamoncillo
maressa
microstigmatids
mps (master production schedule)
nalus
Nassau Airport
operating profit ratio
opinion-shaping
pecuarious
pelmatic
peritoneum of anterior abdominal wall
pestis siderans
phomopsis ailanthi (sacc.) traverso
pilot pressure pump motor
plocamium serrulatum
poly(tetramethylene adipamide)
Pont-à-Celles
prds
pre-audit of requisition
programmable film reader
projection on a plane
protruding portion
Ralf
regular line
Salici
same orientation
scout cap
scyphidia
second penetration product
seed material
shrapnel alloy
sideswipe
siebeck
snarings
solitary crystal
sonnenfeldt
Sotnitsyno
the initial
Timsher
to make a dent in
trabecular meshwork
Trade Date Accounting
transport and loading vehicle
Tymovskiy Rayon
vertuise
Young's moduli