Claire McCaskill Quotes

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

I don't believe in quotas for quotas sake, but I think companies without any women on their boards should write to their shareholders and explain why - explain how many women they've interviewed, why they haven't taken anybody on.

Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

I don't invest in shares in companies that don't have women on their board.

Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table.

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club.

We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

Men need to hire more women and put them in higher positions of power within organizations.

We want to see women in more power positions, not just in front of the screen but behind the screen as well.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

Would I like to see more women in the courts? Yep.

Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

The noble position of motherhood aside, our general opinion about women is that, while taking into account their specific needs, it should be made possible for them to take on every role, including the jobs of physician, military officer, judge and president of a country.

I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.

I come from gender-balanced workplaces. I started off working in medicine, and when I went through med school, it's 50/50 men and women. And when I started working as a doctor, it's 50/50 men and women. So I've always been very accustomed to women occupying pivotal roles in the professional environment.