Pay Gap Quotes

“But in every way, the shared metaphors we use of female access to power - 'knocking on the door', 'storming the citadel', 'smashing the glass ceiling', or just giving them a 'leg up' - underline female exteriority. Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“They'd have us believe if we wear fabulous underwear we'll somehow be above the terrifying statistic that only 1% of the world's wealth belongs to women.”
― Caitlin Moran

“Recently I told a well-known, highly paid woman novelist the sub-title if this book: 'Is feminism relevant to the new millennium?' 'Of course it is,' she said without missing a beat. 'We still don't have equal pay.' Everywhere, powerful women repeat this mantra. Even Germaine Greer now says nothing has really changed. Influential feminists insist that because there are still many individual areas of injustice or unfairness, there is still an overarching system of sexual injustice with men always advantaged and women disadvantaged. One injustice, like the inequality which exists between the average pay of women and the average pay of men, is supposed to prove the rest. But this is no longer true in any simple way. Of course, women still suffer many injustices, discriminations and sometimes even outrages but it is no longer a simple coherent picture of male advantage and female disadvantage.”
― Rosalind Coward, Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant to the New Millennium?

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The presumption that the workforces of all nondiscriminating employers would be sexually balanced—which is the ‘central assumption’ underlying the use of statistics in discrimination cases—is so at variance with reality that one must question a legal system that erects it.”
― Kingsley R. Browne, Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality