“Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news.” IfsWorldDreamSocialHalfEconomicNewsEvidencePopulationGenderProductivityGood NewsEconomic Power Author:William J. Clinton
“Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsChildrenStillsYoungMotherFatherSexParentSpecialBabyCircumstancesBehaviorEvidenceGenderOverwhelmingRepresentativesPsychologistSimilarityYoung ChildrenEmergenceMother And FatherHangoverSummaryGood ParentLike A MotherHighlighting Author:Sandra Scarr
“I didn't realize that I wasn't moving in a gender-equal world - I had a sense of it, but I didn't start to really see evidence of it, I think, until I hit puberty. Media even before that age is already creating all these biases.” ThinkingWorldAgeMovingRealizingMediaEqualCreatingEvidenceGenderPubertyMoving In Author:Emma Watson
“We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.” WellsSupportEvidenceBasesNotionGenderRejectsBiologyContrastScholarPropositionsIdeologicalCreationism Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.” AgeVoiceAbilityRaceQualityLeaderFourIntegrityEvidenceCapacityMarkGenderGreat LeaderDistinctiveEthnicityExemplaryAdaptive Author:Warren G. Bennis
“Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.” WellsIdeasSeemsAmericaBlackWhiteViewsRaceLeaderGenerationsMembersEvidenceClintonSatisfactionBurdenGenderContraryOptimisticRejectsSupporterBreakthroughPrecariousObama Supporters Book:The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama Source: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
“Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.” MeanChildrenCountrySocialGrowthCompanyLeaderSupportIssuesClearProgressEconomicKeysEvidenceGenderDiscriminationAgreementLegislationParliamentSocial IssuesEconomic GrowthGender EqualityWomen EqualityWoman LeaderHealth EducationAnti Discrimination Author:Ban Ki-moon