Gender Gap Quotes:

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

- Patrick Caddell

topic: Men, Gender Gap, Gaps, Walter Mondale

I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

- Eleanor Smeal

source: "The Gender Gap Rules 2012 Election" by Eleanor Smeal, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

topic: Gender Gap, Political, Gaps

The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, Gender Gap, White

I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.

- Kathryn Bigelow

source: "Kathryn Bigelow: We Must End Gender Discrimination in Hollywood". time.com. May 12, 2015.

topic: Thinking, Gender Gap, People, Forward Thinking, Gender Discrimination

We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.

- Charlize Theron

source: "Charlize Theron Is ELLE's New Cover Star". ELLE Interview, www.elleuk.com. May 5, 2015.

topic: Girl, Jobs, Hate, You Hate Me, Pay Gap

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

- Louise Brown

topic: Girl, Thinking, Boys, Birmingham, Gender And Sexuality

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

- Dee Dee Myers

topic: Birthday, Children, Nursing, Gender Gap

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

topic: Country, Motivation, Inspiration, Gender Gap

Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

- Eleanor Smeal

topic: Military, War, Decision, Nuclear Disarmament, Foreign Affairs

It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.

- Karen Hughes

topic: Philosophy, Numbers, Principles, Gender Gap

There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

- Theodore Stevens

topic: Men, Thinking, Support, Expenditures, Gender Gap

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

- Michelle Bachelet

topic: Country, World, Growing, Gender Gap

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

- Sarah Brightman

topic: Gaps, Helping, Gender, Gender Gap