Female Quote by Margaret Wertheim

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

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would…

— Margaret Wertheim

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is…

— Margaret Wertheim

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

There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

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

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

— Fabiola Gianotti

Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there…

— Vandana Shiva

Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that…

— Eileen Pollack

Males and females can both have a fixed mindset about math and science, but it hurts girls more because they are on the negative…

— Carol S. Dweck

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of…

— Kirsten Gillibrand