Bob Hawke Quotes

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

The world is still sexist.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

Sexism is real.

When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.