Quotes About Inequality

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard.

I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.

Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.

Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.