Economist Quote by Christine Lagarde

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

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

In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft…

— Christine Lagarde

We have a massive shortage of engineers and one of the big glaring holes is that we have so few women doing engineering -…

— Jo Swinson

“A couple of years after I graduated from university, in January 2005, the president of Harvard University, economist Lawrence Summers, gave voice to one…

— Angela Saini

When I started work as an economist at the Bank of England, just six of my graduate intake of 37 were women.

— Rachel Reeves

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem,…

— Steve Israel

There are less opportunities for women.

— Heather Graham

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

— Michelle Bachelet

Women earn less than men because they are women.

— David J

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala