Account Quote by 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

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

I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes, you can't…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women…

— Warren Farrell

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

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

— Christine Lagarde

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

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system,…

— Shirley Chisholm

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

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

— Weili Dai

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

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