Warren Farrell Quotes - Page 8

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men, the less we care about making the job safer. The Catch-22 of hazardous occupations creates a 'glass cellar' which few women wish to enter. Women are alienated not just out of the fear of being hurt on the job, but by an atmosphere that can make a hazardous job more hazardous than it needs to be.

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected.

The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

People who get higher pay are more willing to relocate--especially to undesirable locations at the company's behest... A corporate secretary may change companies in the same town; a corporate executive is more likely to change towns with the same company. A talented corporate secretary sees an invitation to relocate as an invitation; a future corporate executive sees an invitation to relocate as an opportunity--and an obligation.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men's powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us - which is really just love for ourselves.

Solutions: Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.