Geena Davis Quotes

And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I was fortunate to be there at a time when that was right.

Title IX is the law of the land. It’s yours to obey and mine to enforce.

Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.

When we had segregated schools and when we had a time when, you know, girls weren't allowed to have the same kind of sports teams - I mean, there have been important inflection points for the federal government to get involved in some of the areas around protecting students and ensuring safe environments for them - there is a role to play.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

I think there's a reason why some companies have such dismal records. It's not because they're clueless; it's because they systematically don't want to hire women.

If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.

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.

Opportunities for young girls, like young boys, to go into academies from a young age does happen now in England, but it doesn't happen globally.

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.

There is so much discrimination towards women in Haryana.

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

The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.

At first, being girls got us a lot of attention. But no one would take us seriously.

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.

My first exposure to sanitation issues occurred when I got admission into an engineering college. They probably didn't want to admit me and informed me that there was no ladies toilet in the college. I was adamant and pursued my studies in engineering in that very college.

There is part of you as a female - no question - that feels like you have to be overprepared and outwork the men because people are automatically going to look at you and say, 'Well, you didn't play football,' or, 'You don't know what you're talking about,' because you are a female.

It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women