Feminism Quote by Valerie Young

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

— Fabiola Gianotti

Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male…

— Alison Gopnik

“A couple of years after I graduated from university, in January 2005, the president of Harvard University, economist Lawrence Summers, gave voice to one…

— Angela Saini

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

“Imbalance in the sciences is at least partly because women face a web of pressures throughout their lives, which men often don’t face.”

— Angela Saini

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

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

— Kerry Bishe

“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

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

— Eleanor Catton

“Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple”

— Agatha Christie

In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women…

— Maria Mitchell

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

— Tarja Halonen