Top Gear’ is for the whole family, regardless of gender, sitting down together to enjoy some slightly silly escapism.
Vivek is a very supportive man. If I am in the kitchen doing something, he comes and helps. I don’t think marriage will change anything for us. Our careers will not be affected after marriage. He believes in gender equality and is a man of today’s time.
The gender disparity in STEM is depriving our country of talented minds that could be inventing the next breakthrough technology, founding the next big startup or keeping our nation safe from cyberattacks.
It’s difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
Gender is a shackle.
Addressing climate change globally promotes health, education and gender equality. Addressing it domestically secures U.K. jobs and sustainable clean economic growth; it protects communities from flooding and the scandal of fuel poverty. It begins to see clean air flow in our cities and schools.
Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.
A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.
Sarah Palin is an heir to the women’s movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, ‘I can’t do that because I’m a woman.’
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.
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people’s expectations of me as an actress.
By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly.
I don’t think it’s at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the electorate, when their experiences, their character, and in my case, gender, may be different.
Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
I would like to see the breakdown of the binary way of looking at gender and sexuality.
Obviously drag has different intentions and my drag has always been about gender illusion.
When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.
‘Suits’ fans. I’ve never met a more diverse audience: across gender, race, class. It’s incredible. People who are high-powered lawyers to doormen. A Chinese immigrant cable installer – who barely spoke English – loves ‘Suits!’
American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he’s got his heart in the right place.
You need to get female talent which is good enough to compete at the right level because no team is going to compromise on on-track performance just to tick a gender box.
In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we’re used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they’re supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.
I didn’t want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
I knew at a very early age, about 6 years old, that there was something different about me. But being young and not being exposed to people who had gender dysphoria, or role models that you see on TV today, I didn’t know what it was.
I could have hidden in Boston and lived at home for three years, gone through my transition, taken voice lessons to make my voice more feminine, gotten gender reassignment surgery, and spent time to complete my transition, but I didn’t want to wait. I wanted to be in the world.
It’s definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don’t know, I’m just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.
Business doesn’t cut you any slack because of your gender. You’re either good at what you do or you’re not.
I’m of the opinion that gender is a social construct.
We’ll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.
When I got to be a CEO, I said: ‘Right. I’m now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I’m going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.’
There’s something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called ‘Every Day,’ which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It’s a really impressive execution of a really great premise.
I believe gender is a spectrum, and I fall somewhere between Channing Tatum and Winnie the Pooh.
A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it’s also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.
I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.
I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it’s easy to understand why the ‘girl dressed as a boy’ trope resonated so much. In a world that didn’t want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.
The gender thing doesn’t exist; it’s a social construct you don’t have to fit into.
You know, in Russia we say there are three things you can’t choose: your parents, your gender and your president.
I’ve been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.
In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It’s a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people’s good will.
Including women in climate policy and solutions can enhance the results, leading to more economic growth and sustainable outcomes. However, we cannot take for granted that gender equality and women’s empowerment in the field of climate change and sustainable development will happen automatically.
It’s all too common that when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and gender equity in the workplace, it translates to just white women.
Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to… But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality.
Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.
Every country faces its own obstacles to reaching gender equality, and to make a real difference, we must change public policies in tandem with stereotypes, attitudes, and behaviors.
Climate change and variations particularly impact many aspects of life that are inextricably linked to health: food security, economic livelihoods, air safety, and water and sanitation systems. Gender differences in health risks are likely to be worsened by climate change.
I didn’t know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy.
I try to appeal to all Kentucky voters, regardless of gender, about the future of state.
There’s this ridiculous idea that I’m a gender traitor because I’m not a feminist. I’m supposed to be part of a sisterhood: you’re automatically supposed to support all women just because you have the same genitals as them, which doesn’t make sense.
I didn’t come out as gay; I came out as I don’t really believe in gender.
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one’s geographic landscape, sometimes out of one’s cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
I don’t think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I’m frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy.
