Emily Calandrelli Quotes

The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women.

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 think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

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.

Sometimes, when you are one of only a couple of girls in an engineering class, you feel like you are representing women in general. That is a large burden to bear.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

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.

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

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

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

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.

The important thing is when you look at areas like physics and you realise that only one in five A-level students is a girl. We know it isn't about aptitude.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.

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

When I was driving the simulator, out of the three engineers I worked with one was a woman. So it was very difficult for me to turn around and tell people that I worked in a male-dominated environment, because it wasn't.

So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.