Doing things Quote by Heather Boushey

Why do so many women drop out of the workforce at this age, in our late 30s, early 40s? Well, often it's because we're…

— Marielle Heller

In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was…

— Gail Collins

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact…

— Hanna Rosin

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who…

— Romola Garai

Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.

— Sharan Burrow

Something happens in the middle when women are in their 30s, and we can start with an array of things that happen, whether it…

— Sallie Krawcheck

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women…

— Angeles Mastretta

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In…

— Gail Collins

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now…

— Zaha Hadid

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

— Morena Baccarin