Quotes About Pay

Women earn less than men because they are women.

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

Women want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

Let's finally guarantee equal pay for women.

[Donald Trump ] who has said women don't deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.

If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.

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

A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.

Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.

It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay.

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.

As a nurse, I earned around 60% of what my white male counterparts in the same position earned.

Room service is a hard thing to pay for. That's, like, oatmeal for $12? That makes me mad.

Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means.