“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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Source: Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
“Ultimately, the witch craze was not the result of just one single factor. Rather, it was a conglomeration of influences that worked together over the span of hundreds of years to shape early modern Europe into the ideal environment for a continent-wide witch hunt: misogyny, patriarchy, religious tyranny, scapegoating, land disputes, the rise of capitalism, shifting views about magic, political propaganda, and an established history of persecution and violence.”
Source: Heal the Witch Wound: Reclaim Your Magic and Step Into Your Power
“Women have a unique lose-lose position where they are either respected but rejected, or accepted but not respected. What a choice.”
Source: The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them
“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