Martha MacCallum Quotes

I think the goal is parity: I try to be pro-woman without being anti-man, and I hope and wish that men could do the same in that when they look at the screenplay, they say, 'Wait, wait, wait - is my daughter represented here, is my wife represented here? Is my sister represented?'

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

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.

I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.

It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

In 'The Force Awakens,' women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don't have to work hard to do that - it's not a statement, it's the world.

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

I don't like tokenism. I don't like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.

The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team.

I think that the more that we can show onscreen men and women working together side by side with respect for one another, I think that that's a good message for us to be spreading.

If you look around Booking.com, it's a very gender-balanced company.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.

In the Philippines, we don't have that much of a problem. There's not much difference between the men and the women. In our business, we always have a good mixture of the men and the women.

I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.

In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

Half of my employees are women.

Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms referred to in it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons.

This is the first generation where, to any extent, men and women are working together as equals.

I am glad that we are demonstrating in the United States to-day that the boy should have no more advantage than the girl.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

An MP is an MP whether male or female.

Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.