“Women suffer an immense burden of impression management concerning everyday behaviours, many of which are the same behaviours required for success. Assertive women risk being seen as 'bossy,' whereas assertive men are considered 'decisive.' Women prepared to have a difficult conversation are 'ball breakers,' whereas men are just expected to 'speak the truth.' Women risk being perceived differently to men for displaying the same behaviours, saying the same things, in the same way, in the same context. Women feel the pressure of considering how they will be perceived to avoid being judged less favourably.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“People who would not ordinarily reach for a sexist stereotype - let alone consciously act on it - find themselves behaving in a way that inadvertently denounces a woman's competence solely because that idea of incompetence is deeply ingrained in a sexist stereotype: an image of women that should be kind and caring and not critical or judgemental. Any deviation sees women being disliked and denigrated, with their competence being brought into question.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“Women cannot be left to bear the burden of calling out inequality simply because they're the ones experiencing it the most acutely.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“By denying women the opportunity to fail in the same way afforded to men, by raising the stakes for half of society so significantly, we have yet another socially constructed systemic barrier to women succeeding.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“Too many women are smeared just for occupying their [male] space. Particularly those whose space involves holding power. For women who venture into governance, the spreading of fake news and disinformation has been particularly pronounced. Research has found that female politicians are targeted far more than their male peers.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“It's got to be disappointing, being called all those things."
Nancy thinks: How long has she been doing this? Nearly twenty years--she can pin it to the month. The answer to that question can never untie itself from her husband's death: when Howard was killed, Nancy ran. Since then she has been called, among other things, a bitch, a cunt, a slut. Hysterical, emotional, irrational. Too fat, too thin, too tall, too short. Murderer of a husband, mother of a faggot, destroyer of liberty. A harpy, a ballbuster, a snowflake, a traitor. But also: a fighter. A role model. Sunglasses on, coat collar popped, walking down the Capitol steps. A hope, and probably just as often, a threat. The reason that the Republic might ultimately prevail, but also the source of its ultimate demise.
She says: "America is disappointing, Cate. That's why we do what we do.”
Source: Let's Not Do That Again
“Marian found all this feminist generalisation and assertion both tedious and exhausting.”
Source: Lucifer and the Child
“If I lived in a village now, which I don't, I'd probably be the witch.”
Source: Delicacy
“if you’re raised with an angry man in your house,
there will always be an angry man in your house.
you will find him even when he is not there.
and if one day you find that there is
no angry man in your house—
well, you will go find one and invite him in!”
Source: Cut
“It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules.”
Source: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century