Mary Lou Jepsen Quotes

I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.

As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is hard on women. And tech is hard on women. And then you start digging, and you learn philosophy departments are hard on women!

I never felt any issues whatsoever about being a woman in Tech.

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another Eng. organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.

I was Google's first woman engineer.

There are less opportunities for women.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.

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

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.