Jessica Barden Quotes

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

We need more women in positions of power so that women's issues are thought of more, because a room full of men in government and in power don't think the type of things needed to make a change.

I want to be a voice for women, but I've also got two boys at home and my role is important for them, too. Men need to hear a woman who is prepared and understanding.

We need better and stronger roles for female actors.

To address what seems like an endless cycle of gender inequity in media, I believe we need to think beyond what our industry has already tried to do through mentorships and internships. We need to stop talking and start moving the needle, and one solution is to simply give women jobs.

The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.