Marianne Lake Quotes

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

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.

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

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall - fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.

To address what seems like an endless cycle of gender inequity in media, I believe we need to think beyond what our industry has already tried to do through mentorships and internships. We need to stop talking and start moving the needle, and one solution is to simply give women jobs.

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.

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

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

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

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.

It's important for women to continue to break through barriers in our industry, in politics, in Wall Street.

If you look at the pipeline of women moving up through the organisation, it's a matter of time and experience that they develop and performance that allows them to move into senior levels.

Men need to hire more women and put them in higher positions of power within organizations.

Since 1987, there are now many more of us as at the higher levels with families, so I think, as role models, we are encouraging more women to stay within banking and rise up through the ranks.

When I started, there were very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it's not like, when I looked up, I could say, 'Well, that's who I want to be.'

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

I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.

What I see around the management team meetings and the conference tables I sit at is that there isn't that same comfort level in other women who are rising the ranks. And I don't know how to fix that.

You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

How hard is it to get female panellists?

Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.

The culture of tech companies cannot change if women aren't in the room.