Christine Lagarde Quotes

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

Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.

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

First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I take seriously. That's the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.

I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I went through the Sundance program, it was half women and half men.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.

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.

There is a lack of female venture capitalists, and so there are fewer female-oriented businesses getting funded. Intel has done a good job of creating a message across Intel, and they are putting their money where their mouth is.

We want to see women in more power positions, not just in front of the screen but behind the screen as well.

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.

I don't see females in the industry collaborating as much as guys do, so I really would love to entertain more of that.

We need to have women as role models, both inside and outside corporate America's leading tech companies, leading the path for other women.

For the men, they are more of a risk taker, and for the women, they are more nurturing and more details. So the combination of the men and women is very good for business.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

It's not good enough to believe women matter if they only matter in the U.K. They have to matter everywhere. As long as there's an idea that women don't matter in the world, then all women are diminished.

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do. It's good for the bottom line.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

I was Google's first woman engineer.