Antonio Guterres Quotes

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

In the long term, female education may be the best way to advance the status of women.

I'm ready to move on to the next chapter of my life in which I will redouble my efforts to empower women in the workplace.

You have to have the same power to lead the life you want as a man does, and that means earning the same amount of money. We still have a battle on our hands with that.

In many households today, the woman is also a bread winner and with this financial independence comes the power of making choices.

We want for everyone to be treated with dignity and respect in any situation. And so we've been thinking about how do we use our platform to empower women. More than half of our hosts are women, and many are using the extra income to start their own businesses.

Empowering women with greater income opportunities will lift societies at a much faster rate.

There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.

Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.

So, this is my government's agenda: educate your daughter and save your daughter.

I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them.