Gender Gap Quotes

• We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, Jobs, Hate

  "Charlize Theron Is ELLE's New Cover Star". ELLE Interview, www.elleuk.com. May 5, 2015.

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• Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

  Louise Brown

  Girl, Thinking, Boys

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• I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Thinking, People, Community

  "Kathryn Bigelow: We Must End Gender Discrimination in Hollywood". time.com. May 12, 2015.

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• The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, White, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Birthday, Children, Nursing

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• Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

  Patrick Caddell

  Men, Gaps, Problem

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• Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Military, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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• It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.

  Karen Hughes

  Philosophy, Numbers, Records

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• There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

  Theodore Stevens

  Men, Thinking, Support

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• I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Political, Gaps, Firsts

  "The Gender Gap Rules 2012 Election" by Eleanor Smeal, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

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• The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, World, Growing

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

  Sarah Brightman

  Gaps, Helping, Interest

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