Georgina Bloomberg Quotes

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

Boys and girls are not the same.

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

I don't think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.

Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

[Feminists think difference in men and women] is all social. It is all about social cliches and pressures, that if you just leave boys and girls alone they're gonna grow up and be identical. They're gonna be the same in the way they look at life, the way they find things interesting. Nothing could be further from the truth.

What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

You know what the problem is? You can't put a woman into a man's role. A women's journey in life, I'm not speaking disrespectfully of women and their roles in life, but a woman's journey in life is very different from a man's. That doesn't mean a woman can't do a man's job, but it doesn't mean that a woman should do a man's job the way a man handles it. The things that men question themselves about in life are quite different from the things women question themselves about.

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.