Jenson Button Quotes

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

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.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

[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.

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.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

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.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

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

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.

We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.

Music is a male-dominated field.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

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