288 Quotes About Gender-roles

Or la société assigne aux femmes et aux hommes des domaines de compétences très différents, et très différemment valorisés, de sorte que les premières se retrouvent plus souvent en situation d'être bêtes.

Es gibt kein Ich vor der Annahme eines Geschlechts.

if sons and daughters are treated equally, raised and educated in the same manner, then the responsibilities assumed by men and women would surely become equal. when that happens, the nouns 'man' and 'woman' would no longer be necessary.

Why was it that the females of the species were always the ones left to tidy up, she wondered? I expect Jesus came out of the tomb...and said to his mother, "Can you tidy it up a bit back there?

If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal... If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem "natural" that only men should be heads of corporations.

I have never been more relieved than on the morning of my fortieth birthday...it felt like I'd been released.

One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.

We make assumptions every day about other people's genders without ever seeing their birth certificates, their chromosomes, their genitals, their reproductive systems, their childhood socialization, or their legal sex. There is no such thing as a "real" gender - there is only the gender we experience ourselves as and the gender we perceive other to be.

Gender roles are so deeply conditioned in us that we will often follow them even when they chafe against our true desires, our needs, our happiness.