219 Quotes About Gender-equality

Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion was criminalized in the 1870s, serve to restrict women's ability to participate in society on equal footing with men.

Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.

The Anti-Stereotype SonnetBlack is not evil.White is not trash.Brown is not illegal.Muslims don’t crash.Women ain't weak.Jews ain't greedy.Men ain't playboys.Queer ain't sickly.Hijab is not oppression.Hourglass ain't beauty.Faith is not delusion.Atheists don't lack morality.Assumptions only reveal shallowness.Beyond stereotypes lies humaneness.

We see the disparities in jobs and education among race and gender lines. Either you believe these disparities exist because you believe that people of color and women are less intelligent, less hard working, and less talented than white men, or you believe that there are systemic issues keeping women and people of color from being hired into jobs, promoted, paid a fair wage, and accepted into college.

If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

I have never separated the struggle of men and women in our society, for one cannot be free without the other.

Women have forever been viewed as the Other: the other sex, the other half, the other option. Always the next best thing, always another part of.

If anyone makes you feel less than you are, for the color of you skin, for where you come from, for the gender of the person you love, for the religion you have faith in, stand up, speak up, roar. No silence till we are equal.

In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by referring to the primary, genetic difference between the sexes. But of forty-eight chromosomes only one is different: on this difference we base a complete separation of male and female, pretending as it were that all forty-eight were different.