Carolyn Maloney Quotes

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

With the pay gap in Hollywood, I think it's very easy to say - 'oh, what are they complaining for? They're making millions of dollars.' But by having a woman in the industry do this, it's easier for others to see it.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Women are not a special interest group in the usual sense of the term. We are half the population.

Listen, it's not just 'Full House.' It's across the board in the entertainment industry: women are not paid what men are paid.

If Donald Trump wants to acknowledge that we have a pay gap for women and we need to address it, I would work with Donald Trump.

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.'

You have to have the same power to lead the life you want as a man does, and that means earning the same amount of money. We still have a battle on our hands with that.

We need more women in higher roles, because the tone for sexual harassment would no doubt be different.

Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.

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

For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it.

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

Let's finally guarantee equal pay for women.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

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.

It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.