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“I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right…

— Lin Pardey

“Women had worked at heavy jobs for centuries alongside men.21 They were now barred from heavy, manual, wage-earning labour, only to carry out heavy,…

— Gabrielle Palmer

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for…

— Kyle D. Pruett

“Then there’s emotional labor. Now, that’s a good one. It describes all the unpaid, uncounted, often unseen work that people—overwhelmingly women—perform to keep their…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have…

— Erica Jong

Everything's harder for women: harder to start, to stay employed, to run a life with a family.

— Miriam Margolyes

“It’s a heady question, how women balance these concerns. Recently, the question has found its way back to the center of a contentious and…

— Jennifer Senior

I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“But most men don’t expect women to do all the work at home. They just don’t care whether or not the laundry gets done…

— Suzanne Venker

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

“The glorious world of work stumbles at various obstacles: pregnancy, age, lack of education, desperation (particularly of migrant and illegal workers, the nannies and…

— Nina Power

Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with…

— Anna Brackett