Diane Hendricks Quotes

I mean, I've been in a very male-dominated industry from a very young age.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.

Today, nobody has a problem with a women working, but every woman invariably faces casual sexism at work.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry is difficult at times. I've had people offer to help me, but it's hard to know who to trust.

I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

There are so many more roles for men than there are for women.

For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Music is a male-dominated field.