Leo Varadkar Quotes

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 list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

When I joined there was probably one woman in the CID office and one in the crime squad and just two of us on a team of about 40 or 50 people.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

I am looking foward to the day when we have more women in the U. S. Senate that there were victims of Harvey Weistein's sexual harassment.

We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.

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

You can't snap your fingers, and suddenly half of Congress is women.

There are five main barriers to women entering politics - I like to think of them as the five Cs: cash, caring, culture, confidence, and the closed club.

There are very few women in the Senate and very few mothers.

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

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

How hard is it to get female panellists?

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

I've noticed that every public health minister has been a woman.