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“Patriarchy is sustained by those co-workers who withhold their valuable support for women colleagues because they see the world as a zero-sum universe: you gain, I lose.”

Feminism Misogyny Patriarchy Women S Rights Women S Liberation

Book:Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy

Source: Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy

“Who is formally categorised as a "skilled worker" and who gets to define what work is "skilled" - together, these are two crucial gears in the machinery of any patriarchal workplace.”

Feminism Misogyny Patriarchy Women S Rights Women S Liberation

Book:Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy

Source: Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy

“On November 10, 2016, British woman stopped working. Or rather, they stopped being paid what they were worth for their work. Feminist economists had calculated that, as a result of the multiple processes that perpetuate unequal pay between women and men, from November 10 to December 31 that year, British women were working for free.”

Feminism Misogyny Patriarchy Women S Rights Women S Liberation

Book:Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy

Source: Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy

“Taking my mother's experiences seriously led to my exploring the militarisation of marriages. It made me alert to what feminist historians have been telling us now for four decades: pay attention to the feminised silences - not just silences due to oppression, but silence flowing from many women's belief that their wartime experiences don't "matter" - that they are merely private, trivial, apolitical. Men wage war; women simply "cope" with wartime. Coping does not make for exciting history.”

Feminism Misogyny Patriarchy Women S Rights Women S Liberation

Book:Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy

Source: Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy