Gloria Steinem Quotes About Gender Roles

Quotes about: Gender Roles

• If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.

  Gloria Steinem

  Circles, Two, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

• For a man to say, "I have to leave work now because I need to do something with my kids," it's sometimes viewed as a career killer. He doesn't have the right drive. So when they depart from their gender roles, they face some of the same restrictions.

  Gloria Steinem

  Kids, Men, Careers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Masculine And Feminine, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

  Gloria Steinem

  Boys, Roles, Gender

  Source: www.elle.com

• The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Clever, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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