Quotes About Gender

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

There are two ways to argue with a woman, and neither of them work.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

Woman has two works to perform: a work of differentiation, of man from herself, and a work of unification, of man with herself. ... We, woman, are now entering upon our second work.

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care, which is less pleasant and which men don't want to do.

I never worry about the social backlash against my work because I'm a man in a dress, and somehow American society creates a buffer on how severe things are when you put a man in a dress.

When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.

As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.