Johnetta B. Cole Quotes

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

I would like to think that there are more women in positions of power, to actually get these projects off the ground that are more balanced, where the story is about men and women.

Great women, in partnership with great men, will continue to take us forward.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

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.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women.

The creation of a peaceful and sustainable world civilization will be impossible without the full participation of women in every arena of human activity.36 While this proposition is increasingly supported, there is a marked difference between intellectual acceptance and its implementation.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.

Women have started speaking their minds, and men have graciously started accepting that. I love this.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

Politics has to be a place where women want to go.

The days of a tennis champion as a gender rights leader are over.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.