Jose Angel Gurria Quotes

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

On a daily basis, I think it's really important to be conscious of gender-based discrimination - which presents in sometimes more, but often less, obvious forms - and do everything possible to defeat that discrimination.

Yes, I believe in equality. But I don't like the word 'feminist,' because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.

I believe getting rid of the divide between men and women will truly establish what it is to be equal. Fashion is increasingly acting as a weapon of change, inspiring ideas that blur that division, albeit in a subliminal manner.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

There should be no boundaries, no hierarchy, no violence. Men and women are equal.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.