Gender Pay Gap Quotes

Gender Pay Gap Quotes

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Uptade:

“This issue of parity is not a women’s issue. It’s a societal issue that needs to be resolved by men and women.”
Stacey Allaster

“If you have the same capacities and you are doing the same job, it is criminal not to [be paid] the same salary.” 
Salma Hayek 

“All through life there were distinctions – toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women – then, at the end, the graves are identical.”
Leila Aboulela

“Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise, and the whole family benefits.”
 Graça Machel

“No country can every truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contribution of half its citizens.”
Michelle Obama

“Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility.”
Ban Ki-moon

“A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.”
Gloria Steinem

“Equality is not just the right thing to do. It’s smart economics. How can an economy achieve full potential if it ignores, sidelines, or fails to invest in half its population?”
Robert Zoellick

“I raise my voice not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”
Malala Yousafzai

“It can be frustrating. It can be painful. Your salary is a way to quantify what you’re worth. If men are being paid a lot more for doing the same thing, it feels sh—y.”
Gwyneth Paltrow

 “Without women’s groups knocking on doors, I wouldn’t have gotten where I am. We need women to support each other. We still don’t have equal pay.”
Sonia Sotomayor

,Important Days in October

“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

 “The reality is that if we do nothing, it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred, before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.”
Emma Watson

“It’s indisputable that there’s a real pay gap. People can argue about how big, but that’s almost besides the point. The point is that every woman, every girl, deserves to get paid what they’re worth.” 
Sheryl Sandberg

“Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers and sisters earn more—commensurate with their qualifications and not their gender. Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect.”
Beyonce

When I started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn’t hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. Women have made incredible strides since then. But 40 years later, we’re still debating equal pay for equal work.” 
Elizabeth Warren

“We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. Today women make up of half the U.S. workforce, but the average working women earn only 77% of what the average man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.”
Beyonce Knowles

“Especially in this climate of women talking about the reality of [unequal pay] in this business, I think it’s important that it gets heard and voiced. It was shocking to me, given all the work that I had done in the past to get us to be paid fairly. I worked really hard toward that and finally got somewhere with it.”
 Gillian Anderson

“Imagine you’re a little girl. You’re growing up. You practice as hard as you can, with girls, with boys. You have a dream. You fight, you work, you sacrifice to get to this stage. You work as hard as anyone you know. And then you get to this stage, and you’re told you’re not the same as a boy. Almost as good, but not quite the same. Think how devastating and demoralizing that could be.”
Venus Williams

Women don’t get equal pay, there are not as many women in government positions or business positions. It’s just not equal. And until there is equality, you’re going to feel that, in any industry. But I was like, girls should have an equal seat at the table. Take Jennifer Lawrence. I mean, she’s opening films — she’s the box-office draw just as much as any guy, if not more. She should be compensated for that.”
 Jessica Alba

“A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far better chance of entering political office or becoming a company director. … Women are responsible for two-thirds of the work done worldwide, yet earn only 10% of the total income and own 1% of the property. … So are we equals? Until the answer is ‘yes,’ we must never stop asking.”
Daniel Craig