Equal Pay Quotes

“What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?”
― Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight

“Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when we start demanding it."

(On Beauty: Susan Sarandon, Vogue, January 8, 2016)”
― Susan Sarandon

“If we want to get paid what we are worth, we need to look out for ourselves.”
― Michelle Kinsman, Real-World Feminist Handbook: Practical Advice on How to Find, Win & Kick Ass at Your First Job

“Women need to keep asking for what they’re worth, and leaders need to make sure women are paid the same, whether they ask for it or not.”
― Mikaela Kiner, Female Firebrands: Stories and Techniques to Ignite Change, Take Control, and Succeed in the Workplace

“Talking about money makes most people feel uncomfortable. We women need to get over it.”
― Michelle Kinsman, Real-World Feminist Handbook: Practical Advice on How to Find, Win & Kick Ass at Your First Job

“You will only speak of your salary expectations, not your salary history.”
― Michelle Kinsman, Real-World Feminist Handbook: Practical Advice on How to Find, Win & Kick Ass at Your First Job

“No one gets promoted by just doing her job.”
― Michelle Kinsman, Real-World Feminist Handbook: Practical Advice on How to Find, Win & Kick Ass at Your First Job

“Women were never absent from film history; they often simply weren’t documented as part of it because they did “women's work”, which was—by definition— insignificant, tedious, low status, and noncreative. In the golden age of Hollywood, women could be found in nearly every department of every studio, minding the details that might otherwise get in the way of more important, prestigious, or creative work (a.k.a. men's work).
If film historians consider the classical Hollywood era’s mode of production a system, we ought to consider women this system’s main-stay, because studios were built on their low-cost backs and scaled through their brush and keystrokes.”
― Erin Hill, Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production