Kara Swisher Quotes

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

I am a woman, and I am proud to say that I work in technology. But I also recognise that the combination of those two facts puts me in the minority.

How hard is it to get female panellists?

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.

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

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

I see tech as... a force that is changing pretty much all parts of our society. It's really sad for me that we don't have enough women that are part of that.

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.

Throughout my working life, I've been either one of very few women or the most senior woman in the place.

It isn't so much that there are so few women in finance in total but, rather, few women in senior leadership roles. It is a real problem that we all need to focus on every day, but it is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

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

I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

You don't have that many women in the industry so the lane is wide open.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

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