Against Quote by Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

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

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology.…

— Shirley Chisholm

I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think…

— Hope Jahren

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune…

— Hope Jahren

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to…

— Michelle Bachelet

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women…

— Warren Farrell

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

— Eileen Pollack

The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased,"…

— Adrienne Rich

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system,…

— Shirley Chisholm

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

— Vera Rubin

“Personally I do not agree with sex being brought into science at all. The idea of 'women and science' is entirely irrelevant. Either a…

— Hertha Ayrton

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that…

— Jane Goodall