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  • What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

    Men   Equal Pay   America  
    "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The debate at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.
  • In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

    "'Community’s' Gillian Jacobs: TV’s Coolest Feminist?". Interview with Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. December 31, 2013.
  • President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

    "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.
  • And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

  • Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

    Men   Equal Pay   Hands  
  • 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.

    Jobs   Men   Equal Pay  
    "James Bond video for international women's day shows 007's feminine side" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.
  • Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

    Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”
  • If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.

    "Who, exactly, was Ivanka Trump endorsing?" by Philip Bump, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2016.
  • Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat, families are struggling, not enough new jobs, or new businesses are being created, and it's important that we all try to figure out what we're going to do, and that's what I've done my entire life, fighting for a higher minimum wage, or family leave, now paid family leave which I believe in, equal pay for equal work.

    Jobs   Believe   Struggle  
  • During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I can't live like this. I can't take another second of this living hell.'

  • Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

    Sex   Men   Equal Pay  
    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.150, Lulu.com
  • I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

    "The Revolution", Women's Suffrage Newspaper, October 8, 1868.
  • We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.

    Reality   Men   Equal Pay  
    "Gender Equality Is a Myth!" By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, shriverreport.org. January 12, 2014.
  • [During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

    Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.
  • I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

    Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.10, Harper Collins
  • 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.

    Sex   Men   Equal Pay  
    Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.391, UPNE
  • Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

  • We need to roll back precarious employment models. Temporary and limited contracts were initially seen as a way of introducing more flexibility so as to bridge periods of need in certain phases of production. Some employers have taken advantage of the model to push down wages. In general, we must strive for equal pay for equal work.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.

    Girl   Appreciation   Sex  
    Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.24, Egmont UK
  • Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

    "28 Famous Men Who Prove You Don’t Need To Be A Woman To Be A Feminist" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2014.
  • President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.

  • SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment, but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights. That is what is happening in their Ma'ale Adumim factory every working day.

    Bridges   Rights   Israel  
    "Oxfam under pressure to cut ties with Scarlett Johansson over SodaStream ad" by Matthew Kalman, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2014.
  • Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

  • My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

  • I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes.

    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on
  • Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

    Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.298, China Books
  • I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

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