Hilary Rosen Quotes

The benefits of feminism for someone like my husband are fantastic. He can stay at home with the kids, he can take them to a park, he does the school run.

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.

As women, we're presented this false choice that is either our children or our work. But I don't think I fully understood the paradox until I had a child. I bring my son to work and let other parents do the same. I am very intentional about the workplace that I create, and my son is a big part of that.

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

Women had to deal with the men's response when the women wanted more time out of the home; men now must deal with the women's response as men want more time in.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Some women work while they are pregnant, but not me. That was a choice I had made. That's when I took a break. Men can work at whatever stage they are; whether they turn daddy, they still have their own thing. But women can't afford that because by being mothers, they have to be there for their kids.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

As president, my father will change the labor laws put in place when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. He will make childcare affordable and accessible to all. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right alongside of him.

Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.

I'll be prime minister and a mum, and Clarke will be 'first man of fishing' and stay-at-home dad. I think it's fair to say that this will be a wee one that a village will raise, but we couldn't be more excited.

We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the 'girl jobs'.

Our minds are slowly changing and men are taking up larger roles at home, while women are doing the same at the workplace.

Moms are as versatile as dads.

To create a society that is supportive of child-rearing parents is a role of the government, and we are also working to realize a society where women can shine.

Family policy is not a zero-sum game: any gain for dads need not come at the expense of mums.

I always had musicians in my band having children, and their wives were the ones at home taking care of the kids. So I never thought much of it. And then suddenly I'm the parent, but I'm the woman, and it's like, 'Ah, what happens now?'