Quotes About Gender

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

There's rampant sexism, of course there is! It just goes without saying. Every woman in the workplace knows this; [every woman] in the workplace has to work harder than a man to prove themselves.

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV.

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.

The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.

I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

Men must work, and women must weep.

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.