Sex Discrimination Quotes

• Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Issues, Doe

  "Scalia: Constitution does not protect women against discrimination". California Lawyer Interview, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

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• In some parts of the world, that sex selection for boys - and it's usually for boys - reflects sex discrimination against girls, and it leads to very large imbalances - in China, in Korea, in India - in the population between boys and girls, a vast disproportion of boys to girls, and it reflects really this discriminatory attitude toward girls.

  Michael Sandel

  Girl, Sex, Attitude

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

  William J. Brennan

  Sex, Attitude, Long

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• Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.

  Alice S Rossi

  Sex, Men, Equal Pay

  Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.391, UPNE

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• ... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Sex, Opportunity, Men

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• It's through neglecting all other values to bring the customer the lowest price that Wal-Mart ended up with such a horrible sex discrimination problem, but that model produces lots and lots of other problems as well, which I think are possibly going to be more difficult to fix.

  Liza Featherstone

  Sex, Thinking, Discrimination

  "Selling Women Short". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2005.

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• There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay and lesbian judges. The theory being that they're going to be incapable of a disinterested judgment on matters that involve their own identity groups. And it came up famously for Constance Baker Motley who was one of the first African American federal judges in a case involving sex discrimination.

  Deborah Rhode

  Sex, Sorry, Gay

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Country, Sex, Opportunity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Employers are not prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Discrimination, Employers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Firsts, Discrimination

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• I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

  David Hilbert

  Sex, Rejection, Discrimination

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• Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

  Bill Watterson

  Girl, Sex, Fun

  "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, September 1988.

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• The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex, Culture, Division

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination

  Anita Hill

  Sex, Race, Discrimination

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• Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

  Jesse Jackson

  Sex, Wall, Mean

  "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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