Equal Employment Opportunity Quotes

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Americans overwhelmingly believe that Americans who want to do jobs, who are looking for work, should have a fair opportunity, if not a preference, to do that work.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a simple matter of justice.

If you're not hiring from some groups of the population, then you're obviously missing out.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants. We want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.

Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right along side of him.

When employers are faced with substantial penalties for discrimination, then they'll begin to do something.

establish and maintain equal opportunity and industrial justice.

So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

The unemployed have rights that are above charity. They have the right to work.

Once women got the right to vote, the kind of relaxed about everything. It was not until after World War II that women discovered that they did not have equal opportunity in the workplace.... The result was almost a revolution.

Because of the Constitution, there are no qualifications for our jobs.

At Affectiva, we hire top talent - and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

If affirmative action is quotas, then I am not for it. If it means equal opportunity, then I say support that. But to ask for special treatment because of race, that bothers me...

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will ensure that no pregnant woman is unfairly fired, or forced to risk the health of themselves or their pregnancy, to earn a paycheck. Our mothers deserve these federal protections.

I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.

Nondiscrimination has been the law of the land for over three decades, yet, in some workplaces, the standard for treatment of pregnant women has remained in the dark ages. Some are fired or demoted, with no hesitation, when a modest accommodation would allow them to continue to work and support their families.

It's a question of economics. If you're paid the same as a man, which now you are in this profession, you're equal.

Men and women should be paid equally.