Protective Legislation

Famous quotes containing the words protective legislation, protective and/or legislation:

    You can’t protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women can’t have it both ways.
    —Mary Bell-Richards. “Protective Legislation in England,” Equal Rights (October 3, 1925)

    How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
    Hortense Odlum (1892–?)

    The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)