Warren Farrell Quotes

Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.

Here’s the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.

I define power as control over one’s life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.

Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That’s 44% more income for 13% more time.

There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives—or at least more balanced lives.

Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.

If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.

Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.

No force is more powerful -- or more multiple -- than the family.