Education Quote by Hope Jahren

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

— Eileen Pollack

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science,…

— Vera Rubin

There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for dragging the…

— Florence King

The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in…

— Ellen Key

“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

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

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can…

— Nancy Roman

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if…

— Adrienne Rich

Showing women being scientists on television can have a great impact on who actually goes into science as a profession.

— Kerry Bishe

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 women are just as gifted when it comes to science as men are. But I think their wishes and desires are different…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

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