Western banks still lag behind financial institutions in most other regions of the country.

西部地区的银行仍然落后于这个国家其他大部分地区的金融机构。

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As a consequence, they lag behind other disciplines.

因此，他们落后于其他学科。

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In the developed world, women lag behind men in pay and political power.

在发达国家，女性在薪酬和政治权力方面落后于男性。

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Women's wages lag one-third behind men's, partly because they take irregular jobs, partly because they stop working to start families, and also because women are not given the same opportunities as men to follow managerial careers.

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Banks around the world are being whipsawed by the fact that much of the bank-funding market is opaque, and information produced by central banks can lag behind real-time events or be limited in detail.

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Meanwhile, African American and Latino students continue to lag behind their white classmates -- an achievement gap that will ultimately cost us hundreds of billions of dollars because that's our future workforce.

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