Harvard university Quote by Angela Saini

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

— Christine Lagarde

Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male…

— Alison Gopnik

“Women scientists had to produce 2.5 times more research and/or published work to receive the same competence scores as male applicants.3”

— Valerie Young

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not…

— Stephen Hawking

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would…

— Margaret Wertheim

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with…

— Hazel Henderson

“Imbalance in the sciences is at least partly because women face a web of pressures throughout their lives, which men often don’t face.”

— Angela Saini

Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women…

— Hanna Rosin

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in…

— Ellen Key

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very…

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III