George Gilder Quotes

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. This should be done as quickly as possible.

What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.

I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

Even after marriage it is possible for a woman to have a career.

Half a century ago women were at an infinite disadvantage in regard to their occupations. The idea that their sphere was at home, and only at home, was like a band of steel on society.

It is easy to imagine thousands of unmarried women — and married women too — who should make a practice of working in a shop or a home or a factory or an office perhaps with a group of others, each in turn taking, say, one day per week,

Women who want to work should be given the choice to do that. If you decide to work even after getting married, then men should allow that to happen.

Women's issues are American issues. We want a better economy; we want more jobs.

There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.