Sex Discrimination Quotes

“Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.”
― Ally Sheedy

“In spite of lip service paid to domestic duties, in 1881 the Census excluded women’s household chores from the category of productive work and, for the first time, housewives were classified as unoccupied.”
― Gabrielle Palmer, The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business

“Our nation had had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of romantic paternalism, which in practical effect put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”
― Justice William Brennan

“Armed with 1,200 pages of evidence of sex discrimination complied by Dr. Sandler, but concerned that the ERA might be a NO, they pushed for something "smaller": the 37 words of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
― Kelcey Parker Ervick, The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives