Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

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

I don't believe in quotas for quotas sake, but I think companies without any women on their boards should write to their shareholders and explain why - explain how many women they've interviewed, why they haven't taken anybody on.

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

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

We don't see enough women in the boardroom.

We know that companies which have more women in leadership positions have a better performance.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

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

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

The More women at work, the sooner we win!

The private sector is the innovation engine of our economy, and more private-sector businesses and organizations than ever are recognizing that training, promoting, and retaining women is essential to their continued competitiveness - and their bottom line.

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

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

I am a big fan of seeing more women in public life.

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

The culture of tech companies cannot change if women aren't in the room.

You need to get female talent which is good enough to compete at the right level because no team is going to compromise on on-track performance just to tick a gender box.

The role and importance of females in companies can make a big difference.

It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the Bruce Jenner effect.'

We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

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

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

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.