Warren Farrell Quotes

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

We haven't always been aware of it, but the 'locker-room bro talk' has long been going on not just in locker rooms but in some corporate conference rooms. Of course, not by all men. But by some - including some who hold positions of power. And that matters in holding women back.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man.

I'm not saying this is all men, but in my experience as a woman, I'm not taken as seriously in a leadership role regardless of how good I am at what I'm doing.

Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.