Ruth Porat Quotes

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

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

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.

Throughout my working life, I've been either one of very few women or the most senior woman in the place.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.

I am a woman, and I am proud to say that I work in technology. But I also recognise that the combination of those two facts puts me in the minority.

When I went into psychology, there were very few women.

When I joined there was probably one woman in the CID office and one in the crime squad and just two of us on a team of about 40 or 50 people.

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

The venture community is largely male.

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

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.