Being Quote by Hope Jahren

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

The lack of role models at the top means women can't look up and see an image of themselves as easily as men can.…

— Katty Kay

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

I think the more women we have in leadership positions, the more women will see examples, can see themselves in those roles.

— Elise Stefanik

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

The landscape in academic science is traditionally male-dominated. Women didn't always see themselves there - there was a lack of role models, a lack…

— Kirsty Duncan

Ultimately, the main reason that you want more women in the sciences is the same reason you want more gay men in the sciences.…

— Cara Santa Maria

“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

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

— Linda Colley

We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by…

— Geena Davis

Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.

— Gretchen Whitmer

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

— Christine Lagarde