If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
— Warren Farrell
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.
I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.
— Waris Dirie
Equal rights for women and queer folks!
— Wangechi Mutu
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
— Wangari Maathai
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
— Wanda Sykes
For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone.
I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.
I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
— Warren Beatty
My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Men don't hear women.
