“As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.” MenYearsFirstsFactsPastUnderstandingTakenSawsFourListeningUnderstoodFemaleTwentiesMalesGlassesAssumptionPowerlessnessMagnifyingMagnifying GlassFalse Assumptions Author:Warren Farrell
“For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.” WorldYearsWarSelfFocusStageSurvivalDefinitionsFocusedFulfillmentWar Of The WorldsTransitionWorld War IiWorld War ISelf Fulfillment Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed. In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.” MenYearsSaidDegreesMurderTwentiesAverageSentencesCommitPenaltiesDeath PenaltyCarolinaNorth Carolina Author:Warren Farrell
“When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is worse than that: It subsidizes the woman using a man's body for 18-21 years without his consent.” MenYearsChildrenBodyGovernmentSupportCreatingFraudConsent Author:Warren Farrell
“During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most resistant audiences I ever faced in the process of doing corporate workshops on equality in the workplace were not male executives - they were the wives of male executives. As long as her income came from her husband, she was not feeling generous when affirmative action let another woman have a head start vying for her husband's (her) income.” YearsLongFeelingsActionProcessCitiesAudienceWifeNew YorkDirectorsHusbandOrganizationMalesIncomeCorporateGenerousBoardsExecutivesNew York CityChaptersWorkplaceWorkshopsAffirmative ActionAffirmativeBoard Of DirectorsAnother WomanHead Start Author:Warren Farrell
“Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.” MenYearsAgeJobsDiesOpportunityLossLove IsWifeSuicideCommitAttractiveOld ManElevenOne WomanLove LossAge 30 Author:Warren Farrell
“Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'” MenYearsChildrenBodyPaySupportMonthsIntegrityFeministNineStakesMinimumMottoNine Months Author:Warren Farrell
“Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.” YearsPastOpportunityFocusDiscriminationBlinded Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it
“After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.” MenYearsChoicesDifferencesResearchMen And WomenMore MoneyEarningBetter LifeLife Choices Author:Warren Farrell
“Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.” MenYearsCompanyStudyHigherStartingEngineeringEngineersSalaryScholarship Author:Warren Farrell
