Gender Inequality Quotes:

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

- Emma Watson

source: "Emma Watson Is Sorry to Tell You, but You’re Probably a Feminist" by Jennifer Swann, www.takepart.com. March 8, 2015.

topic: Inspiring, Men, Thinking, Gender Inequality

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

- Amartya Sen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Problem, Gender, Inequality, Gender Inequality

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Equality, Goal, Challenges, Reducing, Equality For All

We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.

- Emma Watson

topic: Boys, Men, Trying, Gender Inequality

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

- Emma Watson

source: Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Data, Important, Gender Inequality

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

- Stephanie Coontz

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Giving, Historical, Care, Gender Inequality

The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Men, Support, Acting, Gender Inequality

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Lgbt Community, Gaps, Discrimination, Gender Inequality

I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

- Amartya Sen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, Long, Role Models, Playing Up, Gender Inequality

While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and economically, as well as the overwhelming burden of sexual violence is disproportionately borne by women.

- Laura Bates

topic: Men, Impact, Majority, Gender Inequality, Gender Stereotypes

Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Mother, Men, Self, Megalomania, Unfree

There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high business. Japan is a very good example of that. You might find cases in the United States where at one level women's equality has progressed tremendously. You don't have the kind of problem of higher women's mortality as you see in South Asia, North Africa, and East Asia, China, too, and yet for American women there are some fields in which equality hasn't yet come.

- Amartya Sen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, Japan, United States, South Asia, East Asia

One feels so despairing on some levels about what's going on in our culture, in regards to things like gender inequality. But there is progress. There is enhanced empathy and respect for others, we are fighting the tide, even though it seems like a tug of war sometimes.

- Uma Thurman

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: War, Fighting, Empathy, Gender Inequality, Tug Of War

I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.

- Lilly Singh

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Thinking, Issues, World, Gender Inequality

I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.

- Zainab Salbi

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Husband, Believe, Progress, Gender Inequality

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

- Taslima Nasrin

source: "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'". Interview with Anthony Dias, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

topic: Rights, Giving, Wish, Showcase, Gender Inequality

The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality.

- Hozier

source: Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

topic: Teaching, People, Church, Gender Inequality

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

- Daryl Hannah

source: "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

topic: Party, Gender, Inequality, Gender Inequality