Sander Levin Quotes

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.

Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing.

The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

I have done a great deal of work; as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay... Women work in the field and do as much work, but do not get the pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

I believe the girls should be better paid but not the same as the men.

In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

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

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

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.

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

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.

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

Listen, it's not just 'Full House.' It's across the board in the entertainment industry: women are not paid what men are paid.

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did.

There are a lot of women who do a similar job to me who are paid a hell of a lot more... who are a lot posher than me.

Venus Williams is a multi-millionaire not in spite of the fact that she is a woman, but precisely because she's a woman. She receives much higher pay than an equally skilled man. Isn't that precisely the opposite of what is meant by pay equity?