Gillian Jacobs Quotes

The fight for equal rights or pay has become this thing where people expect actresses to talk about it. Why they feel that a man is worth more is an important issue to discuss - we are moving in the right direction, but we need to continue to talk about it and continue to label it as an issue.

Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.

Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a simple matter of justice.

It's a question of economics. If you're paid the same as a man, which now you are in this profession, you're equal.

We want to say to everyone: New Jersey's a place where gender does not play a role in how much you get paid.

I sure do want to make sure women get equal pay for the work we do.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

To men is allotted what they earn and to women what they earn

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

We should not wait any longer to ensure that women get the pay they deserve. I will keep fighting for this until we achieve equality. I am very thankful for all those who are already advocating for equal pay, and I hope others will join me in this fight.

We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay.

Men and women should be paid equally.

Venus Williams is a multi-millionaire not in spite of the fact that she is a woman, but precisely because she's a woman. She receives much higher pay than an equally skilled man. Isn't that precisely the opposite of what is meant by pay equity?

The pay gap is a myth, and the pay gap is something that the White House used in 2012 to get Barack Obama elected. It's something obviously that Terry McAuliffe used to get himself elected, and it plays on this idea that women are somehow discriminated against in the workplace and that they're not paid the same amount as men.

I think girls should be paid more... they're just as talented as us.

It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.

President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.