Top 1200 Gender Inequality Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.

I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

Caitlyn Jenner, for all of her flaws, did start a conversation around the world about gender.

The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.

I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

Racial inequality has gotten worse in the last years because any time you have a moribund economy, the people who historically have had more problems getting jobs have suffered. And that, I think, is triggering a lot of the animosity.

I believe that individuals in our country should not face discrimination for their sex or their gender or their sexual orientation.

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.

In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

The whole idea that someone should not be able to marry who they love based on their gender and their preference is ridiculous.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females.

I think if we're going to be serious as a city, as a country, about addressing climate change, addressing inequality and racial disparities, we have to start taking action at the scale that matches the urgency of the problems.

Let's have a People's Vote to safeguard gender equality and continue the drive towards a fairer world for us all.

I think gender parity is a crucial part of any healthy society. It's applicable to the entire world.

'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.

Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.

We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.

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

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

Keep in mind that diversity does not just mean black. It means all of it - age, weight, gender.

I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.

Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.

The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.

As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now.

While growing up I faced criticism not on the basis of gender but on my appearance. I was bullied and body-shamed.

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.