Fran Kirby Quotes

9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer.

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

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.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

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

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.

Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

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.

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

Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

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

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Why should we employ women when men are out of work?

Women must pay for everything…. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but also, women get more notoriety when they crash.

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man.

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.

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 in our own pockets; and maybe you will ask us for money.

I always had more women working for me than men.