Men's Roles Quotes

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in 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.

I believe and support the feminist movement, but I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights and feminine space.

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

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.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn.

The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

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.

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.

We've learned that women can and should do 'men's jobs,' for instance, and we've won the principle (if not the fact) of getting equal pay. But we haven't yet established the principle (much less the fact) that men can and should do 'women's jobs': that homemaking and child-rearing are as much a man's responsibility, too, and that those jobs in which women are concentrated outside the home would probably be better paid if more men became secretaries, file clerks, and nurses, too.

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

Men aren't asked about their children.

Guys should be doing laundry, doing dishes.

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.

'The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology.

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

Men must work, and women must weep.

With the feminist movement - a good movement which I support - there's been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate.

Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.