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Quotes About Gender

Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.
~ Katie Louchheim
Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.
~ Kristen Stewart
9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.
~ Lily Tomlin
I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.
~ Linda Ronstadt
I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.
~ Lola Kirke
I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.
~ Lorene Scafaria
Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.
~ Madonna Kolbenschlag
We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want
~ Malala Yousafzai
I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.
~ Margaret Atwood
?omen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.
~ Marisa Miller
Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.
~ Unknown
A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
~ Marya Mannes
To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.
~ Mel Gibson
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
~ Michael Korda
Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.
~ Pam Grier
For the same work, dudes get paid more.
~ Rachel Maddow
What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?
~ Samuel Johnson
Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way, she should have itfor her own self-respect and to compel man's respect for her.
~ Susan B. Anthony
That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.
~ Suzanne Vega
Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?
~ Thomas Campion
I think women do work differently; it's important to have both men and women. They offer different things.
~ Tory Burch