Jo Swinson Quotes

The strength of your company is how wide a variety of people can be successful in it.

I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

As someone who's been lucky to have a great career in tech, I know how creative and fulfilling a career in this industry can be for women. And I want to make sure we continue to recruit and retain great female hires.

Our philosophy is to attract top talent and incentivise them to succeed. We have some of the top talent in the entire industry.

What I see with the utility industry is, more and more, we're taking up this belief that our workforce, our leadership ranks, our board should be reflective of the community that we serve.

We need to do a better job of mentorships and role models to bring other young women along so that there's more women in our boardrooms, there's more women here in the United States Senate and in Congress. I think there's an important role for women to play.

I've come to realize that, basically all my bosses and supervisors throughout my career have been male. And I've had great experiences, but it's made me appreciate the importance of diversity and inclusion.

It's fun working with smart, young women.

It is important that women have the opportunity to balance different priorities at different stages in their career.

At Affectiva, we hire top talent - and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity of our team, and we celebrate it.

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

It's always in our mind-set to encourage young girls to get playing. The only way we can do that is being positive off the pitch, trying to engage as much as possible.

As a woman in this organization, I can say that I don't ever feel that I was discriminated against or prevented from opportunities.

When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.

I want our future leaders to know what's possible and to be part of a world where diversity and gender equality aren't special programs but the natural way of operating.

Female goalkeepers are seen as equals in academies now. We're trying to set a good example for the younger boys so they're used to seeing us women around, making great saves and scoring great goals.

The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team.

I certainly believe in equal rights.

If a club like Barcelona can do it, then why can't other clubs? It's amazing that we can be here alongside the men and the way everyone is integrated in the club. People aren't just walking past you going, 'Who's that?'

No country can succeed if it denies itself the talents of half of its people.