Gender Gap Quotes

“It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves.”
― Caroline Criado Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

“Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“This is the ultimate chicken and the egg situation. The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership roles... The egg: We need to eliminate the external barriers to get women into those roles in the first place. Both sides are right.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“[Peggy Mcintosh] explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they are -- impostors with limited skills or abilities”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“One of the main results of women’s empowerment is a great increase in the number of women who cheat.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“True women empowerment will occur only as a result, not of the disempowerment of men, but of the stopping of our caring about the kind of genitals a person has, except when it comes to things such as reproduction and the use of public toilets.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Patriarchy preserves itself mainly by producing as many females as it can who believe that a wife or a mother is the second best thing a girl can become—the best being a married mother.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In the world of data, women must be mythical creatures. That's the only explanation for why we're so often left out.”
― Anubha Saxena

“Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many, if not most, music videos are less good at promoting the artist(s) or album than they are at portraying women as mindless creatures that are good only at doing things such as revealing their thighs and concealing their own hair with synthetic, animal, or someone else’s hair.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Women generally get rich through divorcing a rich man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Muchas veces las mujeres se casan con su techo de cristal.”
― Caitlin Moran, More Than a Woman: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious Feminist Memoir on Parenting, Marriage, and Middle-Age