Blythe Masters Quotes

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

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.

It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

The venture community is largely male.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.'

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

Throughout my working life, I've been either one of very few women or the most senior woman in the place.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

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

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

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

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

There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

Long ago when I went to college, campuses were about 70 percent male, and until 1970, it was still nearly 60 percent.

The fact that women represent such a small portion of the tech workforce shouldn't just be a wake-up call - it should be a Sputnik moment. The tech industry is not America's future; it is our present.

If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.

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've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

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 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.

When I look at most lineups, especially in country, women are definitely lacking in numbers.

How hard is it to get female panellists?