Karen Bardsley Quotes

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

I wouldn't oppose a women's astronaut training program; I just see no requirement for it.

I never want to set a belief that a woman has to direct a woman's film, meaning she can't direct a man's film. If only films can be directed by people who are exactly the same as that, it's only gonna limit all of the women more.

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.

Young boys and girls should be given the chance to play football.

I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.

It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.

Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

I've got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. That's part of what I'm fighting for as president of the United States.

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

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I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

Whoever it is who's filtering stuff makes it seem like women want to be more than men. My understanding... is that we're asking to be treated the same.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

I never saw gender as a barrier.

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.