Hilda Scott Quotes:

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

source: - Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

Topics: Political, Economics, Economic

At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

Topics: America, Media, Shoes, Radical Feminism, Miss America

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

source: - Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

Topics: Doe, Housewife, Term

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

source: - Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

Topics: Women, World, Poverty

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

source: - Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

Topics: Hard Work, Wife, Achievement

What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world.

source: - Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

Topics: Women, World, Common