Wage Gap Quotes

“The problem with the 'masculinity crisis' is not that women have excelled too much and therefore created a crisis for men, but that we have such a stein inability to let go of what it has traditionally meant to be a man...As long as we perpetuate the myth that men have inherent qualities that make them more suitable than women for certain types of work, the shifting nature of the economy (and women's attainment of better jobs) is going to continue to be interpreted as a crisis of masculinity.”
― Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life

“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most
important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead.
And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.)
Today, we live in a vastly diʃerent world. The person more qualiɹed to lead is not the
physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more
creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as
likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our
ideas of gender have not evolved very much.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“What I wish I knew when I asked for a raise in my twenties:
- Remember: the world is not going to end if you get "no" for an answer
- You have succeeded before
- Be confident and keep it positive
- Stop waiting for the perfect moment
- Use "no" to fuel your next steps”
― Fran Hauser, The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate

“Now she had Leon’s former title, office, and telephone extension, though not his former salary.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“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

“A 2016 study conducted by researchers at Cornell University determined that job type is one of the single greatest contributors to an enduring gender wage gap. The more "feminized" a job, the less people will pay for someone to do it.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“But it is nonetheless disturbing to find mothers actively engaged in sabotaging one another, blind to their common ground. Think about it: women against poor mothers on welfare; women against rich Zoe Baird. Women against their husbands' first wives; mothers embroiled in endless mommy wars. Working mothers aren't "doing their job" at home, while mothers at home don't have a "real" job. The net effect of all of this belittling is to obscure the larger reality that mothers as a group are performing an enormous amount of essential unpaid labor.”
― Ann Crittenden, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued

“¿Tenía ella la culpa de que su marido ganara más? ¿De que fuera más lógico que ella, y no él, dejara su trabajo? (...) ¿De que ansiara tener el más insignificante amago de estímulo mental, poder regresar a sus pilas de libros, a su desamparado armario de proyectos a medias, a una tarde entera de soledad y silencio?”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“We must therefore distinguish the necessary feminist demand for “equal pay for equal work” from the equally important need to keep some parts of our social, cultural, and spiritual life out of the marketplace. We must not convert all gift labors into market work lest we wake one day to see that universal market in which all our actions earn a wage and all our goods and services bear a price. There is a place for volunteer labor, for mutual aid, for in-house work, for healings that require sympathetic contact or a cohesive support group, for strengthening the bonds of kinship, for intellectual community, for creative idleness, for the slow maturation of talent, for the creation and preservation and dissemination of culture, and so on. To quit the confines of our current system of gender means not to introduce market value into these labors but to recognize that they are not “female” but human tasks. And to break the system that oppresses women, we need not convert all gift labor to cash work; we need, rather, to admit women to the “male,” money-making jobs while at the same time including supposedly “female” tasks and forms of exchange in our sense of possible masculinity.”
― Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property