“As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.” PeopleBelieveChildrenImportantTogetherLawUsedForceSocialPracticeFemaleTraditionFoundationDiscriminationCodeJustifyEldersGreat RespectMutilationInfanticide Author:Mary Robinson
“The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?” NewsFemaleDiscriminationFantasticGreat News Author:Andrea Leadsom
“Right now the topic of female empowerment is at the forefront of conversation and it's important we take advantage of the trend while there is added pressure to adjust long-standing beliefs, prejudices, and cultural discrimination.” LongImportantBeliefRight NowConversationAdvantageFemaleEmpowermentStandingPrejudicePressureDiscriminationTrendsTopicsFemale Empowerment Author:Gillian Anderson
“Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.” NeedsHumansChildrenValuesRaceHalfFemaleWesternDiscriminationHuman RaceHuman NeedsWestern Values Author:Mary Robinson
“As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination... to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.” WritingYearsLongHardFactsProblemJobsNamesLosesResultsIssuesFrontsDemandPagesFemaleEnglandArguingTinyNewspapersDiscriminationArticlesFewerEngineersSexuallySampleWalesMaternityMps Author:Laura Bates
“It's a little simplistic to say trans men are privileged because they're men. I was socialized female and I transitioned at 25, so I experienced a hell of a lot of gender discrimination in a lot of directions growing up.” MenHellGrowing UpFemaleGenderDiscrimination Author:Rhys Ernst
“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.” EndsFormBlackFemaleSocial JusticeHumanismDiscrimination Book:Unbought and Unbossed Source: Unbought and Unbossed
“Because of the lingering discrimination, many women still lack confidence. They live in fear of stepping beyond what they feel is acceptable 'female' behavior. I can remember feeling that I wasn't 'normal' because I was aggressive, had dreams and goals, and wanted do do great things...I am glad now that I found courage to do something radical and chase my dreams.” FeelsStillsI CanFeelingsDreamWantedRememberFoundGoalBehaviorNormalFemaleGladDiscriminationGreat ThingsRadicalAggressiveAcceptableLingeringDreams And Goals Author:Joyce Meyer