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Quotes About Gender

I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.
~ Grace Helbig
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.
~ James Levine
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
~ Jane Austen
For both Adam Smith and Karl Marx the essential work of caring for people, starting in early childhood, was "just women's work" - and in their minds not even classified as "productive work."
~ Riane Eisler
The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.
~ Anne-Marie Slaughter
Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
~ Barack Obama
The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
~ Christian Louboutin
If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.
~ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.
~ Edna Ferber
Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.
~ Elizabeth Banks
Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.
~ John Malkovich
I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
~ Naveen Jain
I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.
~ Stephanie Ruhle
The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.
~ Anita Borg
I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.
~ Gwendoline Christie
'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like 'black-ish' works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.
~ Jenna Wortham
I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly.
~ Janet Weiss
When women are provided with training and entrepreneurial opportunities in distribution networks, they become role models in their communities, showing it is possible to challenge limiting norms and stereotypes, and to succeed.
~ Paul Polman
TV is kind of messed up in terms of stereotypes and who plays the leading man and leading lady.
~ Lolly Adefope