Barred 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

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness.…

— Stephen Hawking

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

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires…

— Caroline Knapp

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

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

— Margaret Wertheim

There's no reason for men to be better at maths than women - it's just about our perception.

— Rachel Riley

We have plenty of young women coming into biology and medicine, but we don't have enough coming into physics and engineering. It's a really…

— Alice Roberts

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

— Sally Ride

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

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very…

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III