Gwynne Shotwell Quotes

I have been able to enjoy the strides that others have made before me. I don't want to scoff at the idea that there was sexism, but I don't wake up in the morning and think, 'I am a woman in tech.' I just go to work, and my work is in technology.

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

Playing a woman in the tech world never crossed my mind as a thing until people started bringing it up all time. People act like it's unicorns speaking English all of a sudden.

Growing up, I'd never heard of any female producers or songwriters. I didn't know you could be a girl and produce, which is terrible.

Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.

When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for me to turn around and tell people that I worked in a male-dominated environment, because it wasn't.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

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.

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.

When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

If I were not a woman, I would not have been the vice presidential candidate.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

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.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

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

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.