Elise Andrew 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.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

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

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?

I never really thought about the fact that there weren't female role models, because I had them in my life. The women I knew in my life were so strong.

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.

It's so great to be able to inspire these young women today to get involved in male-dominated subjects.

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.

I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I'm happy that life isn't like that. I'm glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.

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

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?

We have a lot of supergeniuses in the Marvel universe, but very few of them are women.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

When I went into psychology, there were very few women.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.