Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

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

Employing more women at all levels of a company, from new hires to senior leaders, creates a virtuous cycle. Companies become more attuned to the needs of their female employees, improving workplace culture while lowering attrition.

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

After the #MeToo movement, I told my team to hire as many women as possible. So there are always a lot of women in my team. I talk to them and they read the script and come up with their own suggestions.

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.

We need to have women as role models, both inside and outside corporate America's leading tech companies, leading the path for other women.

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 think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

It's important for women to continue to break through barriers in our industry, in politics, in Wall Street.

Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.

I am surrounded by exceptional women on Accenture's board of directors as well as my own leadership team.

For the American economy, for any economy to grow, to truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half our population. We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we've got to do it now. We cannot wait for them to learn how to be brave like I did when I was 33 years old.

No country can succeed if it denies itself the talents of half of its people.

It can be very challenging to be what you can't see. Think about it in the physical world. You walk into a room, and no one looks like you. Can you relate to them? Do you feel welcome? Let's stop talking about how men dominate the technology industry and instead focus on the women who are killing it.

Hire women. Trust women. Let them succeed. They are a pleasure to work with.

With my company, Giant Spacekat, I was very angry about the lack of games that portrayed women positively in the video game industry, so I launched my own studio, gave a lot of very talented women jobs, and we made some of the most awesome, empowering games in the business.

The culture of tech companies cannot change if women aren't in the room.

The role and importance of females in companies can make a big difference.