Zainab Salbi Quotes

It appears easier to talk about protecting women than it is to fully include women at all decision-making levels in peace talks and post-conflict planning.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women... you get all of the different backgrounds. You don't want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I'm like, 'Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.'

We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.

Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility.

There are a lot of women - directors, producers, writers - involved in my career. They are all interested in telling good stories, and good stories involve men and women.

I truly believe that ESPN has been in the forefront in terms of the diversity in front of the camera and improving the balance between men and women.

I have been involved with U.S. Soccer for 30 years, and I don't remember one senior woman in the organization that you would deal with on a daily basis in a position that was making decisions. That is a huge issue. How many times do you hear, 'There are no women around?' Well, they are fishing in the wrong pond.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

It's a good addition to get a female perspective.

I would like to think that there are more women in positions of power, to actually get these projects off the ground that are more balanced, where the story is about men and women.

We want the next generation of products being innovated to reflect our users. And when women are not part of the equation, we won't have products that reflect the unique needs and opportunities across our society.

The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team.

It's 2015. And I just want to get to the point where we're hearing female voices as much as we're hearing men's.

People have different ideas on how to increase female racing driver participation. My belief is that men and women should compete together.