Warren Farrell Quotes

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

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

I always had more women working for me than men.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

I want to be a voice for women, but I've also got two boys at home and my role is important for them, too. Men need to hear a woman who is prepared and understanding.

I don't like tokenism. I don't like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.