Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

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

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of business; it simply wanted in on it.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

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.

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

Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.

I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.