What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.
Interpretation
Opposing progressive policies traps women in outdated roles and limits their rights.
Madeleine M. Kunin's quote addresses the importance of supporting policies that uplift women's rights and promote equality. By opposing measures aimed at reducing violence, ensuring fair pay, and securing health care access, some men perpetuate a regressive mindset that harks back to a time when women were not regarded as equals, emphasizing the need for contemporary respect and rights.
In practice
During a women's rights rally, this quote could be used to emphasize the importance of supporting equality in legislation.
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.
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.
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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.
What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.
If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
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