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Opposing progressive policies traps women in outdated roles and limits their rights.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.
A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing β a flower in the process of expressing its potential.
The world will be changed by western women.
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
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