Gender Equality Quotes

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  • Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

  • Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

    Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868
  • There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

    "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.
  • Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.

    "HeForShe Conversation with Emma Watson on International Women's Day 2015 [Full Q&A] - Official". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. March 8, 2015.
  • A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

  • Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

  • How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

    "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.
  • So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

  • Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

    Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
  • It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges.... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.

    Husband   Women   Worry  
    Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone
  • We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

    Zero   Winning   Men  
  • I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

    Hate   Fighting   Men  
    United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014
  • Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

    "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.
  • He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

    Book   Men   Doors  
  • It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.

    Men   Media   Enough  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
  • The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.

  • Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

  • God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

    "Love and Intimate Relationships: Journeys of the Heart" by Norman M. Brown, Ellen S. Amatea, sychology Press, (p. 297), 2000.
  • In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

    Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.17, Vintage
  • We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.

    Reality   Men   Equal Pay  
    "Gender Equality Is a Myth!" By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, shriverreport.org. January 12, 2014.
  • If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

    "HeForShe University Tour", www.askmen.com. November 19, 2015.
  • Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes].

    "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
  • Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.

  • It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

    Issues   People   Credit  
    Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.
  • U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.

    UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.
  • Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

    Distance   Goal   Long  
    Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.
  • There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt.

  • I believe in gender equality.

    Source: www.glamour.com
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