Sex Discrimination Quotes:

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.

- Antonin Scalia

source: "Scalia: Constitution does not protect women against discrimination". California Lawyer Interview, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

topic: Sex, Issues, Doe, Sex Discrimination

In some parts of the world, that sex selection for boys - and it's usually for boys - reflects sex discrimination against girls, and it leads to very large imbalances - in China, in Korea, in India - in the population between boys and girls, a vast disproportion of boys to girls, and it reflects really this discriminatory attitude toward girls.

- Michael Sandel

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Girl, Sex, Attitude, Boy Girl, Sex Discrimination

There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

- William J. Brennan

topic: Sex, Attitude, Long, Paternalism, Sex Discrimination

Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.

- Alice S Rossi

source: Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.391, UPNE

topic: Sex, Men, Equal Pay, Sex Discrimination

... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

- Mary Barnett Gilson

topic: Sex, Opportunity, Men, Sex Discrimination

It's through neglecting all other values to bring the customer the lowest price that Wal-Mart ended up with such a horrible sex discrimination problem, but that model produces lots and lots of other problems as well, which I think are possibly going to be more difficult to fix.

- Liza Featherstone

topic: Sex, Thinking, Discrimination, Sex Discrimination

There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay and lesbian judges. The theory being that they're going to be incapable of a disinterested judgment on matters that involve their own identity groups. And it came up famously for Constance Baker Motley who was one of the first African American federal judges in a case involving sex discrimination.

- Deborah Rhode

source: "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

topic: Sex, Sorry, Gay, Disinterested, Federal Judges

South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.

- Kim Hyesoon

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Country, Sex, Opportunity, South Korea, Sex Discrimination

Employers are not prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

- Warren Farrell

source: "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

topic: Sex, Discrimination, Employers, Sex Discrimination

Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

- David Hilbert

topic: Sex, Firsts, Discrimination, Emmys, Indignant

I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

- David Hilbert

topic: Sex, Rejection, Discrimination, Candidates, Sex Discrimination

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

- Bill Watterson

source: "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, September 1988.

topic: Girl, Sex, Fun, Calvin And Hobbes Friendship, Sex Discrimination

The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer.

- Shulamith Firestone

topic: Sex, Culture, Division, Yin And Yang, Sex Discrimination

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination

- Anita Hill

topic: Sex, Race, Discrimination, Sex Discrimination

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

- Jesse Jackson

source: "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

topic: Sex, Wall, Mean, Sex Discrimination