Quotes About Gender

People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.

Rightly or wrongly, as a woman in politics, you're being judged for what you're wearing, and people are paying attention to that more than they do with men.

TV industry pays us as much as the leading guy or probably more. All our shows are women-oriented, and all the TV actresses are getting paid well. There is absolutely no discrimination over here.

Bumble gives men a chance to take a step back and not be the macho aggressor that they may not want to be but were socialized to be. We think it makes for a better and more peaceful environment for everyone.

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with - first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

Too many women don't see themselves in senior leadership and so don't push themselves to advance their careers as their male peer group do.

Of course the female experience is different from those of our male peers - just like every woman's story is different from their fellow females.

When you give someone an award and you tell them that they are the best female chef in the world, you alienate them from their peers.

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

I think it's hilarious if people say that my body looks masculine.

'What will people say?' is a feeling every Indian girl grows up with.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

I want to develop women-oriented films because, in most of the films, 70 per cent of the focus is on heroes and the rest on the heroine.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

Women can better perceive injustice.

Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.

A lot of people don't perceive me as female or trans, they just see some rocker.

I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.