Ivanka Trump Quotes

What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

Women had to deal with the men's response when the women wanted more time out of the home; men now must deal with the women's response as men want more time in.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

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 was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

The emancipation of women will only be possible if the traditional world of men also changes.

I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.

If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men.

I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.

The rise of women and feminism is well documented. What is equally fascinating - and less talked about - is the impact this has had on men.

I personally think the male and female roles have changed dramatically in the past few decades. Men are no longer the breadwinners. Financial independence for a woman is a huge thing.

I still believe a little bit that changing gender roles have hurt relationships.

Our minds are slowly changing and men are taking up larger roles at home, while women are doing the same at the workplace.

The idea of men earning and women waiting at home for them, is over.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'