Cass Sunstein Quotes

I have done a great deal of work; as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay... Women work in the field and do as much work, but do not get the pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

We have to change a norm that has been in existance for years .... If we [female actresses] aren't paid equally, why would we be expected to be treated equally.

Listen, it's not just 'Full House.' It's across the board in the entertainment industry: women are not paid what men are paid.

Every woman needs to know when she's being discriminated against and what the reasons are why she isn't getting equal pay so we can close that pay gap.

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

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

Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing.

I've been paid less than men I worked with who contributed less to the project.

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.

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough in our own pockets; and maybe you will ask us for money.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value

We have required under law for years that men and women get paid equal money for equal work. But we've faced challenges enforcing that law. There is still a large wage gap, and there are numerous instances of women holding jobs where they are not compensated fairly.

Women play about twenty-five percent as good as men, so they should get about twenty-five percent of the money men get.

Establishing a 'livable wage' floor would immediately reduce the gap in average pay between American women and men.

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.

If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

I'm the same as anyone else. If you are as good at a job as someone else, but they get three or four times more, you get a bit frustrated.

I know what it feels like to be paid less - substantially less - than the male lawyer in the office next to me.

There's no justification to not be paid the same as the men. We do everything the men do.

Let's finally guarantee equal pay for women.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.