Gender Quotes
You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
- Frances O'Grady
You can have three 48-year-old women living close together who are very different. One may be a first-time grandmother. The second may have a child in kindergarten and pregnant with a second child. The third is single, never married, very focused and spoils the heck out of other people's children. Politicians reach out to those women as a generic 48-year-old but only have a 33 percent return rate. You need to know something more than gender and age.
- Kellyanne Conway
Women come from a culture where society has told them all these years that at whatever level you have to be better, you have to work harder, you have to outperform everyone else in order to break through all the gender barriers. In a basketball male culture, it's almost not cool to study. I think it's taken a lot of programs the NCAA has implemented to let those players and their coaches know, 'We've got to perform or we're going to lose scholarship.
- Richard Lapchick
Women are more social in the way they cope with stress. Men are more likely to deal with stress with a fight or flight reaction. Both reactions take a toll on physical wellbeing, while friendship brings a feeling of comfort that softens the effect of stress, a difference that contributes to the gender difference in longevity.
- Shelley Taylor
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