Country Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The sexual segregation of the labour force, and the preservation of workplaces as arenas for fraternal solidarity, have remained remarkably stable during the twentieth…

— Carole Pateman

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her…

— Phyllis McGinley

The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the absence of…

— Stephanie Coontz

“The notion that women shouldn't care about personal success -- or the work that gets them there -- is disengenuous; it is impossible for…

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her…

— David Brinkley

In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on…

— Brendan Behan

Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

— Helen Fisher

Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working…

— Sandra Scarr

Many women are the lower-earning partner in a married couple, thanks in part to forces that relegate women to less remunerative professions and pay…

— Annie Lowrey

“Housework’s modern status,” writes Ann Oakley, “is nonwork.” A recent study shows that if housework done by married women were paid, family income would…

— Naomi Wolf