Best Gender Equality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

“Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.”

Thinking Wells Seems Fighting Term Practice Gender Gender Equality Norway Forward Thinking Constantly Thinking

Author:Jenny Hval

“Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.”

Achieve Gender Status Quo Gender Equality Negotiating

Author:Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

“Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.”

Men Made Shows Games Gender London Comparison Competitors Gender Equality

Author:Donna de Varona

“Gender equality is more successful than armed force.”

Force Successful Gender Gender Equality Armed Forces

Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.”

Stills Hard Done Reality Together Causes Careers Becoming Empowerment Gender Empowering Working Together Empowering Women Gender Equality Becoming More Together We Can

Author:Madhuri Dixit

“Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.”

Has Beens Example Empowerment Committed Gender Priorities Secretary Gender Equality Top Priorities

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.”

Ifs Believe Sorry Feminist If You Believe Gender Equality

Author:Emma Watson

“Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyones responsibility.”

Men Girl Responsibility Boys Achieve Men And Women Gender Engagement Gender Equality Boy And Girl

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.”

Men Games Winning Prove Gender Data Zero Gender Equality Win Win Zero Sum Game Prove To Me

Author:Michael Kimmel

“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.”

World Needs Mean Children Littles Doe Philosophy Culture Moral Wife Dangerous Source Healthy Concern Gender Welfare Guidance Tension Gender Equality Degrade Healthy Family Slappers

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.”

“It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges.... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.”

Men Courses Women Loses Worry Husband Losing Privilege Gender Reactions Worried Privileged Haunting Gender Equality Obstinate

Book:Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“I feel like a feminist is gender equality.”

Feels Feminist Gender Gender Equality

Author:Ilana Glazer

“Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.”

“There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.”

Way Giving Care Values Hours Simple Economic Amount Taxes Sick Paid Gender Flexible Gender Equality Economic Value Sick Leave

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.”

People Ifs Want Mean I Can Ability Gender Pursue Truthful Gender Equality Being Truthful Racial Equality

Author:Anita Hill

“The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.”

“Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.”

Men States Parent Change Religious Decision Leader Roles Men And Women Relation Gender Partners Pursuit Decision Making Ceo Gender Equality Head Of State

Author:Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

“How about we get rid of separate bathrooms for boys and girls? Gays and straights share the bathroom with zero issues. We need to put an end to the sexist pooping policies of yesterday. The only way to achieve gender equality is to start crapping in front of each other.”

Way Needs Ends Girl Boys Issues Share Achieve Fronts Policy Gay Gender Yesterday Zero Bathroom Gender Equality Sexist Boy And Girl

Author:Daniel Tosh

“One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.”

“Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.”

Ifs Able Gender Empowering Empowering Women Gender Equality

Author:Michelle Bachelet

“Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes].”

Two Stories Roles Issues Models Incredibles Committed Gender Role Models Promoting Gender Equality

Author:Alysia Reiner

“The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality.”

Has Beens Moving Feminism Economic Benefits Increase Gender Inequality Gender Equality Neutrality Economic Inequality

Author:Stephanie Coontz

“We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.”

“It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I dont really expect any credit for going in that direction. Its the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people dont see that as so patently obvious as it should be?”

People Should Kind Seems Natural Issues Obvious Gender Credit Be Kind Gender Equality

Author:Amartya Sen

“I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.”

Believe I Can Strong I Believe Modern I Believe In Gender Gender Equality Modern Day

Author:Katie Cassidy

“I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.”

Needs Used Support Democratic Gender Convinced Participation Gender Equality Suffrage Women's Suffrage

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access to vocational training and mentorship, as well. It's an issue of gender equality, which is fortunately a hot topic right now, but we need to keep at it and not rest on our laurels.”

Needs Giving Wells School Girl Opportunity Boys Issues Keys Right Now Training Hot Gender Access Topics Gender Equality Laurels Hot Topic Vocational Training

Author:Gillian Anderson

“We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.”

Ideas Class Gender Working Class Gender Equality

Author:Vijay Prashad

“There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.”

Long Matter Subjects Revolution Gender Subject Matter Gender Equality Ethnicity Uprising Overdue

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I believe in gender equality.”

Believe I Believe I Believe In Gender Gender Equality

Author:Demi Lovato

“MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.”

Leader Brother Gender Tension Gender Equality Entourage

Author:Manning Marable

“The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?”

Ends Use Nations Drug Approach Mass Mental Health Slave Finals Gender Compassionate Gender Equality Public Health Proliferation Incarceration Drug Use Mass Incarceration Health System

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

“My mother has been to Mecca to perform her hajj; my dad hasn't. I come from a very liberal family, so even the people who are outwardly religious tend to subscribe to gender equality, the importance of open-mindedness, all that stuff. My family is generally nonprescriptive.”

People Has Beens Mother Stuff Religious Dad My Family Importance My Dad Gender Gender Equality Open Mindedness Mecca Hajj

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“It's not enough to vent about what you don't like on social media. I would ask everyone who can, men included, to get involved in an organisation actively working for gender equality.”

Men Enough Asks Social Media Involved Social Media Gender Get Involved Organisation Gender Equality

Author:Catherine Mayer

“What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.”

“Iceland's Women's Day Off in 1975 saw 90% of Icelandic women take time off from their paid and unpaid work, an experience that not only showed women how much they contribute but turned Icelandic men into supporters of gender equality. I aim to achieve the same impact in the UK.”

Men Saws Achieve Paid Aim Impact Gender Take Time Supporter Gender Equality Time Off Days Off Iceland

Author:Catherine Mayer

“I think it is inevitable that leftist forces in the US would be divided, if not balkanized, to some extent. Among the full range of people who are committed to social and economic equality and ecological justice - i.e. to some variant of a leftist vision of a decent society - it will always be the case that some will be more focused on egalitarian economic issues, others around the environment and climate change, others on US imperialism, militarism and foreign policy, others on race and gender equality, and still others on sexual identity.”

People Thinking Justice Vision Environment Economic Policy Identity Climate Change Committed Gender Focused Inevitable Decent Foreign Policy Imperialism Gender Equality Ecological

Author:Robert Pollin

“Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.”

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”

Ifs Fear Born Growing Wings Flying Gender Equality

Author:Coco Chanel

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”

“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”

Ifs Men Women One Thing Equality Gender Our Time Assured Circus Beard Gender Equality Women Equality Equality Of Man

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.”

World Believe Challenges Moral Struggle Century Battle Slavery Gender Around The World Twentieth Century Totalitarianism Gender Equality Nineteenth Century Paramount

Book:Half the Sky

Source: Half the Sky

Gender Equality Quotes

Related topics

Gender Equality Quotes