Gillian Tans Quotes

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

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

We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.

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

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.