Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder to determine whether they're actually committing sexism or thinking in a sexist way.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.

Being a woman is really crap.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

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

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

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

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

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

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.

I really hate having to put 'female' in front of any title, because it puts us in some kind of weird category for handicapped people or something.