4 Quotes & Sayings By Emer Otoole

Emer O'Toole is an award-winning author of over twenty novels. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, and she has won numerous awards including the Romantic Novelists Association's RITA Award, the Irish Book Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award, the UK Romantic Novel of the Year Award, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Texas Review of Books. She has also won awards for her work as a children's book author. Her latest novel, The Family Tree, was an Amazon Best Book of 2014.

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Science faculties at renowned research institutions were given two identical CVs to assess. Half the scientists received a CV with a female name, and half with a male name. The 'female' applicant was consistently rated as less competent and less hireable, and the scientists were less likely to want to mentor her. The 'male' candidate was offered a significantly higher starting salary Emer OToole
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Our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality. Emer OToole
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Even within our culture, there are times when breasts stop being read as bouncy sex balls: when women are breastfeeding, there's pretty wide acceptance of the fact that shouting 'phwoar' is bad form. Emer OToole