“Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing."” RunningDecisionWeekHusbandStandingBallsClaimsElectionLabourMy HusbandSexismAcceptableNothing NewCameron Author:Yvette Cooper
“[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.” MenSaidFactsWould BeWishHe ManHusbandMarriedSexismWomens RightsEarningMarried Women Author:Fanny Kemble
“[On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.” KnowsWayFeelsHusbandDiscriminationErasMarchMy HusbandSexism Author:Pat Nixon
“I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.” BelieveI BelieveMarriageWifeHusbandUnderstoodAffairDinnerGentlemanLatinSexismProvidingFillingNeglectedNeedlesScrap Book:The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding Source: The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding
“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.” YearsChildrenLittlesMatterReasonPlayMotherTurnsGirlParentBoysRolesFiveFourStyleTvsBabyHusbandClothesDoctorsNo Matter WhatRefusePopsFive YearsSexismDishesWashingDronesFive Year OldsInsistingChildren Playing Author:Stella Chess
“It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.” WorldYearsMeanChildrenMadeSaidJobsThreeTechnologySonMomHusbandScientistInnovationRaisesEightWinnerSexismMedalRocketsBeefMatthewObituaryRenownedBest MomTechnology And Innovation Author:Deborah Copaken
“All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.” MenWorldLongHas BeensDoneFightingSidesJusticeForgetSonBrotherBearsOne DayHusbandInjusticeSexismSensibleLong LifeSemblanceSixth Sense Author:Amelia Barr
“Hillary throws that sexism victim card right down, starts crying, starts talking about how hard it's been. She was raising Chelsea, she was doing her best, and her husband was doing that, and the attacks are so mean and so cruel, the attacks are so vicious. And she hung in there. And then the other thing they do is say she didn't know, she's ignorant, she's not up to speed. I don't know how any of it jibes with the Smartest Woman in the World.” WorldMeanCryHusbandVictimSpeedIgnorantSexismHung Author:Rush Limbaugh