Gary Becker Quotes

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.

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

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

I believe in the natural order where the man works and the woman stays home and raises the kids. It's what the people want and what they will get if I'm elected governor.

In the 1950s, men were the bread winners and women worried about the price of bread.

The common man thinks that the marriage is like appointing one to do his work. The husband thinks so! The husband’s family thinks so. Every one thinks that a girl is coming to the family to do work. Even the girl’s family trains the girl to do the household work

Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.

Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.