Reed Morano Quotes

I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

There's something wrong with the Labour party. There's something wrong with the fact that women never rise to the top.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.

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.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

Today, nobody has a problem with a women working, but every woman invariably faces casual sexism at work.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.

I think every industry is a male-dominated industry. Whether it is Tollywood or Bollywood or India as a whole, it is male-dominated. We stay in India, and it has been patriarchal society.

I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.

There are still very few companies run by women these days. And, clearly, there are many reasons for that, including what many see as the role of both unconscious bias and outright sexism.

Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.