Division of labor Quote by Steven Pinker

“In Hobbes’ state of nature, when a male individual conquers (contracts with) a female individual he becomes her sexual master and she becomes his…

— Carole Pateman

Most people aren't encouraged to think of their labor as very valuable. We usually think of it as the necessary thing we engage in…

— Melissa Gira Grant

“Is the division into men and women a product of the imagination, like the caste system in India and the racial system in America,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But in all seriousness, the infantilization of women perpetuates inequality, and when that is conflated with sex, it’s easier to reduce women to objects…

— Phoebe Robinson

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

— Henry Ford

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though…

— Andrea Dworkin

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

— Orville Dewey

“[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

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false…

— John Ruskin

The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory…

— Shulamith Firestone

Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free…

— Germaine Greer

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

— Fulton J. Sheen