Mildred S. Dresselhaus Quotes

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

Very few women are creative. I would not send a daughter of mine to study physics.

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?

We say women have made great strides: in biology, in many areas of chemistry, in many places, women are now the majority of medical students. But when I began my career, that wasn't the case. There were very strong stereotypes in biology and medicine.

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.

Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.

It's so great to be able to inspire these young women today to get involved in male-dominated subjects.

I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen.

I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I'm happy that life isn't like that. I'm glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.

Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as economic development, around the world.

By highlighting female pioneers in STEM, we can encourage aspiring young women who want to study or work in these fields.

Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

Aside from introducing and supporting legislation to help close the gender gap in STEM, I believe that shining the spotlight on female role models is one of the best ways we can break the gender stereotype.

We need to do a better job of mentorships and role models to bring other young women along so that there's more women in our boardrooms, there's more women here in the United States Senate and in Congress. I think there's an important role for women to play.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.