Jennifer Pahlka Quotes

[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters."

The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception.

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

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.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

Music is a male-dominated field.

I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

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

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

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

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'