Eileen Pollack Quotes

When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.

I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

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.

Given that many girls are indoctrinated to believe that they should be feminine and modest about their abilities, as well as brought up to assume that girls are not innately gifted at science or math, it is not surprising that so few can see themselves as successful computer scientists.

It's not fair that kids feel like they have to be naturally gifted at math and science, but with, it's often pushed to the side. It doesn't make any sense to me why it shouldn't be a big part of kids' lives.

I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

Do I think I am being held to a different standard than a man who would be in this exact same race with the exact same story? Might be? Yes. But that’s reality.

Do you have a year to tell you what I have been through as a woman working in journalism? I went through hell. A lot of discrimination, everything you can think of.