Words matter. These are the best Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing – viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games – especially against women – would be rapidly toned down.
‘Job Killer.’ Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
A small pay discrepancy between men’s and women’s salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
The best antidote to poverty remains simple – a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.
When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It’s part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women’s issue – it is a fundamental economic issue.
Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that’s where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it’s easier to combine career and family.
Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
It’s time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of ‘qualified.’ The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
I’m not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You’ve got to have political courage. You’ve got to have your own inner beliefs.
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one’s principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. ‘How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?’ Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
Many women do not want to venture out into the ‘opinion world’ until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We’ve been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can’t please everybody.
I hadn’t thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its ‘No Women Allowed’ sign?
If being a woman is a factor politically, it’s usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations – it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.
Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
Why can’t the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
Why are video games so violent? The ones I’ve seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn’t been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn’t want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? ‘Failure is impossible.’ Failure is possible if women don’t vote.
‘Power’ is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to ‘do it all,’ which often means, ‘all by themselves.’ Why? They’ve been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
It’s time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.
