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Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman's life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb then why would we allow a woman to determine a man's life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.
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How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.
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When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.
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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
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It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.
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Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.
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