Yusuf al-Qaradawi Quotes

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

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.

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

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 have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

Is not Victoria Empress of India? Have we not, among our country-women, persons of as much talent and ability? Is not history full of precedents of women rulers?

It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.

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

Leadership desperately needs women.

The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

I am surrounded by exceptional women on Accenture's board of directors as well as my own leadership team.

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

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

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

From Warren Buffett to Jamie Dimon to Paul Tudor Jones, no one has cracked the code and put a critical mass of top women in the C-Suite or near it.

We have extraordinary women running for us right across Canada, and I look forward to showing that women are needed in positions of power. And I certainly hope that, after people see how effective a cabinet with a gender parity in it is, we're going to draw even more women into politics in subsequent elections.

Donald Trump just has always elevated women to the highest echelons.

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

I think Hillary Clinton has made great strides in doing so, even though there are people who want to bring us back to the '50s and still define a woman by her husband and her husband's legacy. But she has proven herself to be a force on her own and is an example to us of how women should and can be judged on their own merits.