People Talk Quote by Nina Power

“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

“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

“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social hierarchy. Women…

— Julie Zeilinger

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two…

— Florence Kelley

“If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be…

— Emily Matchar

“[D]emanding wages for housework (…) forced recognition of the fact that the domestic work which women do has economic value. But many feminists feel…

— Nivedita Menon

“A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.”

— George Gissing

If you look at the workforce and the way our laws work around so many issues, it's as if women are supposed to retrofit…

— Cecile Richards

Some jobs are for women, and some jobs are for men. It has nothing to do with how capable women are.

— Ant Middleton

“Working with women is such a rewarding experience because as you interact with them, you realize that although they face various struggles; women have…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“It was never reasonable or fair that women should shoulder the burden of household management, but it is possible that in an effort to…

— Julianne Malveaux

The issue of women in the workplace is not a women's issue: it's an economic problem.

— Caroline Ghosn