Amartya Sen Quotes

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

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

It cannot be doubted that in most countries today women, in comparison to men, still remain underprivileged.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

I've been speaking out about harassment and gender disparity for years.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

The world is still sexist.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Sexism is real.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

I'm feminist in that I believe that there should be equality between men and women. I get deeply frustrated on a daily basis by the enormous gender divide in the U.S. literary world. But I don't know how to deal with it, so I don't tend to say much about it.

In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.

If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

Why is there even a conversation about feminism?