Eleanor Smeal Quotes

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.

Leadership desperately needs women.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

We would like, still the numbers to increase, and so we're hoping that there's far - there will be many more women in the cabinet. It appears there will be and we're hoping that will happen. And - but the ones that have been picked, by and large, we have worked with. There's a couple that we haven't, but there - they look like their bio's are great and so we're - we're pushing on.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

Carolyn Maloney is very, very comfortable with a whole host of issues, but on women's issues, she is really just one of the few people who understands that women are not only half of the world and half of the United States, but they need an advocate; that they have to have advocacy; that our issues cannot be ignored.

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.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

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.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Women…are just as capable of being heads of state as men. Some of the most forceful leaders of history, from the time of Queen Elizabeth to Israel’s Golda Meir and India’s Indira Gandhi in our own time, have been women. Mrs. Gandhi, incidentally, is prime minister of 530 million people, more than twice the population of the United States.

Women are prepared to run for office. They're prepared to show up. Oh yeah, women have big roles to play, and they have stepped up to the plate already.

Of course it would be wonderful for Hillary Clinton to be the first female president, but I think she would be the first to say that she wouldn't want people to vote for her just because she's a woman.

I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

We know that companies which have more women in leadership positions have a better performance.

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.