Gloria Steinem Quotes

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

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

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

The result of coeducation shows clearly that there is no mental inferiority on the part of girls.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

As F1 is a male-dominated environment, you have to prove yourself. And first of all that means being given the chance to prove yourself.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.

I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.

I'm not sure I'd be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it's a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.