Anita Hassanandani Reddy Quotes

I think the whole movement of #MeToo is not just calling out the sexual harassers, which is really important, but also crying out that we want equal pay, equal representation, equal opportunities, and that we want to see more female directors and photographers.

Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.

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.

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

Economic opportunities will win the women's vote.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

I joined NOW on an issue of pay.

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.

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

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.

Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military.

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

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.

Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.

I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life.