Gillian Tans Quotes

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

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Men need to hire more women and put them in higher positions of power within organizations.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

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

Leadership desperately needs women.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

From Warren Buffett to Jamie Dimon to Paul Tudor Jones, no one has cracked the code and put a critical mass of top women in the C-Suite or near it.

I don't invest in shares in companies that don't have women on their board.

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Where I'd like to see more women is at the executive table.

I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

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

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

We need women on the police force and we will have them there some day.

We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.

If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.

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