“There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.” DifferentPoliticalCultureReligiousLossPovertyDespairRiversGenderFanaticismRepressionApartheid Author:Lawrence Wright
“I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.” ShouldCultureFeltChallengesDanceGenderStereotypeGender Stereotypes Book:Push Comes to Shove Source: Push Comes to Shove
“Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.” RealStoriesCultureCommonRolesWestGenderDebateOppressedGender RolesTaintedAfrican Culture Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“You wanna be counter-culture? You wanna be a total rebel? Get a job! You wanna be counter-culture, totally alternative, radical? Be a virgin until you get married...to a person of the opposite gender. And then stay married and pump out some kids and pay your taxes and read the Bible, you freak. You'll be just totally a rebel.” PersonsKidsJobsCulturePayTaxesMarriedOppositesGenderRadicalAlternativesRebelFreakVirginsPumpsCounter Culture Author:Mark Driscoll
“People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksJobsCertainCultureNumbersLeaderStreetsWallIndustryPercentAssumingGenderFinanceVaryNonprofits Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.” PeopleThinkingMenCultureToo MuchGenderScareFundamentalismExperimentationHysteriaHostage Author:RuPaul
“We absolutely need diversity [in game designers]. And not just diversity of gender, but diversity of cultures, of ethnicity, of sexuality. If we want to reach beyond the audience we have we've got to bring in more players, and to bring in more players we've got to bring in people who might be able to reach those players.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsMightAbleCultureGamesAudiencePlayerDiversityGenderSexualityDesignerEthnicity Author:Brenda Romero
“Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.” WorldNeedsMeanChildrenLittlesDoePhilosophyCultureMoralWifeDangerousSourceHealthyConcernGenderWelfareGuidanceTensionGender EqualityDegradeHealthy FamilySlappers Author:Barbara Ehrenreich