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Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

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.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.