Boards Quote by Claire McCaskill

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and…

— Gloria Steinem

As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

— Gillian Tans

It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the…

— Julie Smolyansky

Having more women in company boards, in senior management, supervisory positions and workers in the formal sector is not only the right thing to…

— Michelle Bachelet

The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If…

— Carly Simon

I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is…

— Geena Davis

The issue of women in the workplace is not a women's issue: it's an economic problem.

— Caroline Ghosn

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

— Ruth Porat

'Women on Board' provides a roadmap for high-performing women leaders to join high-performing boards. It is a must-read for every sitting board director, man…

— Sandra E. Peterson

Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms,…

— Laurie Penny

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks,…

— Carolina Herrera