Susan Wojcicki Quotes

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

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.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

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 always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

When both women and men contribute to a country's economic life on an equal basis, they help building stronger societies and stronger economies.

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

Half of my employees are women.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

The business world needs the best talent from both genders to compete in an ever-changing environment and drive innovation.

We actually probably do nothing very special for women. But what we do in a very special manner is to remain an absolute gender-neutral, merit-based organization.

A director is a director is a director. Man or woman - it doesn't matter.

If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.

How hard is it to get female panellists?

If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.