Benefits Quote by Stephanie Coontz

I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to…

— Amartya Sen

The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that…

— Laura Bates

Any insistence on equal pay is crucial and any redefinition of work to include caregiving work so that it also has an economic value,…

— Gloria Steinem

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

— Alix Kates Shulman

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem,…

— Steve Israel

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major…

— Riane Eisler

Though few hiring managers would deliberately choose to offer women less money than their male counterparts, when using salary history to determine compensation, they…

— Letitia James

I realize that 'hire qualified women!' is the sort of outraged demand that's often met with a sigh. No one disagrees, and yet gender…

— Nell Scovell

In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work is also…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

— Rebecca Traister

We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal…

— Gloria Steinem

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers…

— Martha McSally