Cressida Dick Quotes

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

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.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

I always had more women working for me than men.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.

There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.'

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.

I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.

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.