Donna Strickland Quotes

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

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.

Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.

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

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.

We need women to better reflect the social fabric of our society.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.

I want to see more women behind the scenes.

If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.

We are going to have to go through generations of change before we see the impact of females taking a role in the workplace and Formula 1 is no different.

The video game industry traditionally has been a very male-dominated field. You know, with the advent of the iPhone, the number of women gamers exploded.

There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

It was really unusual that the crews on 'Spooks' were a real mix of men and women, and you'd struggle to see many women with parts that weren't cliched back in the late '90s.

The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women.

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.

The important thing is when you look at areas like physics and you realise that only one in five A-level students is a girl. We know it isn't about aptitude.

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.

Would I like to see more women in the courts? Yep.