Business Quote by Ruth Porat

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were…

— Melinda Gates

When I started work as an economist at the Bank of England, just six of my graduate intake of 37 were women.

— Rachel Reeves

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate…

— Frances Arnold

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Christine Lagarde

Growing up in the South, it was very patriarchal. When I applied to Stanford, I was told by a [male] college counselor, "You're never…

— Reese Witherspoon

When I went into psychology, there were very few women.

— Carol S. Dweck

“Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as…

— Stephanie Coontz

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln…

— Anonymous

At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the…

— Katharine Graham

I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty. The government…

— Carol S. Dweck

Going to a women's college made a big difference. It gave me the sense women could run things... and I just never thought that…

— Linda Wertheimer