Lou Henry Hoover Quotes

Women need to understand that it is possible to stay in the workforce. A lot of women decide to take a back seat in their professional careers even before they are pregnant or are ready to have children.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

I think there is really something we need to examine about the notion of careers, and are women encouraged and given the same opportunities to have vital healthy careers in which they are challenged by certain things, they try new things, they struggle, maybe they stumble, maybe they fail, and then there's more room to succeed as well.

Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.

One of the biggest challenges is for women to find an organization that's willing to accept them back after they leave the work force to raise children without taking a cut in compensation and responsibility.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Perhaps the major challenge during my time in office was getting employers to understand how much more needed to be done to give women their fair share of employment opportunities.

There can be no question that women should have equal rights with men.... Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man's name.

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, ... home economics than financial economics.

The more education and the better credentials women have, the more freedom they have to choose the extent to which they will work outside their homes.

I think that the female workforce is so valuable. And if we're going to champion women in the workforce, which our economy seems to want to do, we have to deal with the realities, which is that they have children, and they need a way to take care of their children in a supportive work environment.

Whether it's salary or a promotion or a job, I think it's important for women to ask for what they think they deserve.

I think most young professionals would be surprised to learn how accommodating employers can be to inquisitive potential candidates.

Women who want to work should be given the choice to do that. If you decide to work even after getting married, then men should allow that to happen.

It is important that women have the opportunity to balance different priorities at different stages in their career.

There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.