Sharan Burrow Quotes

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

I will not accept anybody’s claim that they are striving for equal rights for women when they refuse to agree to a radical redistribution of work—both gainful employment and unpaid work [in the home].

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -- except the housewife.

I'm against all employment for women outside their home...In my opinion basically the access of women to the factory floor is against the laws of nature...Besides if women are employed by industry and the public sector, they will displace men and close their employment opportunities.

It is a crime against humanity that our women are confined within the four walls of their homes like prisoners. They should stand side by side with men as their companions in all spheres of life.

Under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed … firstly because the law does not give them equality with men; and secondly—and this is the main thing—they remain in ‘household bondage’; they continue to be ‘household slaves’, for they are overburdened with the drudgery if the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen in the family household.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a 'leisure gap' between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife.

I’m the only woman in the country who gets a regular pay check doing political cartoons. And there are no Blacks. I don’t know why …. Perhaps, women are used to taking care of pathetic things; cartoonists beat up on pathetic things.

It was seldom suggested that women’s drudgery could be decreased in the meantime by the simple expedient of sharing it with men.

The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the absence of family-friendly work policies, is expected to adjust her paid work to shoulder the brunt of domestic responsibilities.

Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself; it has a serious social and economic impact that holds us all back.

Women are inferior to none.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.