Quotes About Gender

It is, however, with Hillary Clinton that we see the Medusa theme at its starkest and nastiest.

Putting it bluntly, having women pretend to be men may be a quick fix, but it doesn't get to the heart of the problem.

Public speech was a—if not the—defining attribute of maleness. Or, to quote a well-known Roman slogan, the elite male citizen could be summed up as vir bonus dicendi peritus, 'a good man, skilled in speaking.' A woman speaking in public was, in most circumstances, by definition not a woman.

it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it.

Do those words matter? Of course they do, because they underpin an idiom that acts to remove the authority, the force, even the humour from what women have to say. It is an idiom that effectively repositions women back into the domestic sphere (people 'whinge' over things like the washing up); it trivialises their words, or it 're-privatises' them.

But all tactics of that type tend to leave women still feeling on the outside, impersonators of rhetorical roles that they don't feel they own. Putting it bluntly, having women pretend to be men may be a quick fix, but it doesn't get to the heart of the problem.

For a start it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it. And that matches the detail of the threats themselves

Trump and Clinton, Perseus and Medusa, and rest my case.

Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino

Es habitual pensar que las mujeres que ocupan cargos de poder están derribando barreras o apoderándose de algo a lo que no tienen derecho.

No es fácil hacer encajar a las mujeres en una estructura que, de entrada, está codificada como masculina: lo que hay que hacer es cambiar la estructura.

she was well aware that the further up the career hierarchy she went, the fewer female faces she saw.

To put this the other way round, we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.

a reminder that the body beautiful was not so very far from the body brutalised.

A woman did not take her husband's name or fall entirely under his legal authority. After the death of her father, an adult woman could own property in her own right, buy and sell, inherit or make a will and free slaves – many of the rights that women in Britain did not gain till the 1870s.

Do those words matter? Of course they do, because they underpin an idiom that acts to remove the authority, the force, even the humour from what women have to say.

Na literatura da Antiguidade, a autoridade da profunda voz masculina, por contraste com a feminina, é constantemente realçada. Tal como um tratado científico da Antiguidade afirma de modo explícito, uma voz grave indica coragem viril, uma voz aguda e feminina, cobardia.

se quisermos fazer um verdadeiro progresso (...), temos de retroceder a alguns dos primeiros princípios acerca da natureza da autoridade verbal, acerca do que a constitui e de como aprendemos a ouvir a autoridade quando o fazemos. E em vez de empurrar as mulheres para as aulas de dicção para ficarem com um tom agradável, profundo (...), devíamos pensar mais acerca das clivagens e das fraturas que subjazem nos diálogos dominantemente masculinos?

A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres.

The white man oppresses the half-blood, the half-blood oppresses the full-blood, and everybody takes out their anger, despair, and feeling of helplessness on the women.

If you compare statistics on different types of households, you find that the presence of an adult male means more additional work for the woman than the presence of a child under ten, even when the man believes himself to be sharing the housework equally.*

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.

The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.