Freeman A. Hrabowski III Quotes

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

I am a woman, and I am proud to say that I work in technology. But I also recognise that the combination of those two facts puts me in the minority.

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

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

As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

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

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.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

I see tech as... a force that is changing pretty much all parts of our society. It's really sad for me that we don't have enough women that are part of that.

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.

We have a massive shortage of engineers and one of the big glaring holes is that we have so few women doing engineering - it's less than 10 per cent of the workforce.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

The venture community is largely male.

Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.