Quotes About Gender

Women should have parity with men. End of story.

The benefits of feminism for someone like my husband are fantastic. He can stay at home with the kids, he can take them to a park, he does the school run.

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.

Parliament's centuries of history have been overwhelmingly dominated by men, but things are changing.

I live in a female-dominated household, so I'm like a partial woman myself.

As a filmgoer and a filmmaker, I want to participate and tell stories of woman and man that will move us forward.

Everyone should be allowed to participate in sport, because it helps you to become more confident. That is important for women in India, because we are not always treated as equals.

The MBA entrance exams are so quantitative-oriented that it keeps out more and more women from joining the MBA classes. If we were to make the entrance exams more all-rounded, you could see more participation.

Equal pay for equal work isn't, 'Here, I'll give this to you.' It's confidence, it's participation.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

As I was looking through a book about German Expressionist films and their stars, it all came together because of the extreme way actors made their faces up in those early day of film in order to pop out in the black-and-white. I just wanted to use makeup in the same way, partly perhaps because as women get older, they're told to wear less makeup.

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

A director has to be on the set when the crew is called and is the last one to leave at night. I'm not saying it's not possible, but that's partly why we're not seeing more women.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

If a man is secure enough to allow his partner to go out and express herself, and if he does not feel as ambitious as her, he can be a homemaker also. There is nothing wrong with it.

While women prefer to have a higher-earning partner, men generally prefer to be the higher-earning partner in a relationship.

There's so much more work for a man in his mid-30s: a lot of female-driven shows, where everybody needs a husband or partner.

Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman.

More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.

It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.

Because I'm experimenting so much with gender-bending and listening to everything that happens to me in terms of genderless energies, I have a hard time finding partners that can match me.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

I want men to be asking to play great female parts!