“Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!” CountryLeftBloodDogJokesPercentFemaleOur CountryScotlandCelticIceland Author:Gerard Butler
“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.” IfsYearsCountryGrowsPoorHalfTalkingMoralPercentFemaleArgumentPopulationArguingFinanceFasterMinistersHarnessPoor Countries Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.” WayWritingArtistStuffUniquePercentFemaleIndependentMalesComposerFewerSongwritersFourteen Author:Kate Nash
“Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.” MenStillsReasonThreeDifficultFourWifeRightsStudentsPercentFemaleUniversityDivorceIranOfferingSixtyWomens RightsViolationUniversity Students Author:Shirin Ebadi
“When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.” ThinkingDoeIdeasFormTeacherTeachingCenturyPercentFemaleAcknowledgeBiasNineteenth CenturyMothering Author:Dana Goldstein
“Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.” MenStudentsPercentFemaleUniversityEducatedIranUniversity Students Author:Shirin Ebadi
“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.” IfsThinkingWantLooksLittlesBookCharacterGirlStuffResponsibilityRolesModelsPercentDaughterFemaleWindowMalesStoresComicOddMy DaughterRole ModelsComic BookShelves Author:Mark Millar
“I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.” FirstsNightBlackEqualDegreesPercentFemalePrisonMalesUniversityLawyerJailGraduatesEngineersGrandchildrenFillingCounterpartsIllinoisGreat GrandchildrenBlack Males Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research.” FilmRolesSeeingResearchPercentFemaleBiggerDataFilmmakerGroundbreakingPopular Film Author:Emma Watson
“The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.” Has BeensHardDifficultPercentFemaleLaborIntentionMalesWork OutBoardsVotingVotersDifficult ThingsUkip Author:Nigel Farage
“There's a reason why at most major universities and colleges the female-male enrollment is so out of whack. Thirty-five percent male versus 65% female. It used to be just the exact opposite. There's a reason.” ReasonUsedFiveCollegeMajorsPercentFemaleOppositesMalesUniversityUsed To BeReason WhyThirtyVersusEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory.” MadeSchoolGirlParentTermPercentAreasFemaleIndiaRateRegionsLowestLiteracyCompulsoryFemale Education Author:Amartya Sen
“At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.” GivingHumansLooksThreeColorTypePercentFemaleMajorityMereExtrasFourthIdenticalMutationGenetic Mutation Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.” IfsThinkingMenEnoughRiskHugeLoversHusbandPercentFemaleTwentiesVictimEightGambleBeing A Woman Book:Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me Source: Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me