Adam Grant Quotes

If you look at the workforce and the way our laws work around so many issues, it's as if women are supposed to retrofit themselves into a workplace that was never created for them.

I guess because there aren't many women working in the kind of variety of spaces that I've had the opportunity and privilege to kind of work in, that there is this extreme scrutiny about my career.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

We're starting to see [gender voting] gaps right down to races for dog catcher.

I always had more women working for me than men.

For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

I think it's kind of silly, actually... I've been coached by men the majority of my career. It hasn't ever been an issue. They have never walked in on us. So I don't - I think it's a nonissue when you really reverse the conversation.

I mean, I've been in a very male-dominated industry from a very young age.

An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.

Do I understand that I'm in a man's industry? 100%.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another Eng. organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit.

The #metoo campaign opened a particular window into the gender dynamics in technology, with many prominent women speaking out.

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.