Mildred S. Dresselhaus Quotes

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

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.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

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.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

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.

I appreciate the positivity of those 'year of the woman' articles - it's good to get that energy out there - but at the same time, in Hollywood it's not happening yet.

First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that's a position that I take seriously. That's the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

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

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

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.

We are in a world where men and women are on the same platform.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.

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.

I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

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.

The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.