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“Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.”

Men Today Mines Gay Female Ideals Workers Males Coal Gay Men

Author:Camille Paglia

“We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.”

Should Matter Problem Solutions Female Workers Valuable Cultivating Problems And Solutions

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“Almost everything can be construed as sexual harassment depending upon the way it is said. One general rule of thumb is to think of your female co-workers as you would your sister. Yes, she is a woman. No, she is not a sexual object. Yes, your parents probably like her more than they like you.”

Thinking Way Said Parent Objects Like You Female Workers Thumbs Think Of You Harassment Like Her Co Worker

Author:Linda Sunshine

“It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don't want.”

Thinking Want Home Jobs Female Angry Workers Handle Co Worker Sanitation Make Me Angry

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them.”

Virtue Female Rewards Workers Males Philosopher Phrases Coins

Book:Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today

Source: Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today

“Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.”

Causes Goal Class Path Environment Solutions Female Workers Males Dishes Solidarity Working Class

Author:Nadezhda Krupskaya

“That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.”

Strong Female Workers Males France Meat Cows

Author:Gaspar Noe

“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”

“In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.”

Important Individual Hours Pay Attitude Roles Movement Industry Female Workers Organized Etc Labour Doomed Wages Advocating

Author:Clara Zetkin

“The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.”

Made Fear Process Voice Challenges Easier Female Workers Careful Gentle Breaking Down

Book:Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Source: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”

“The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.”