“In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.” WorldFoundEmotionCompanyStupidFemaleInstinctMalesIntuitionPlentyCherishSensibilityPerfumeNeuroticNurturingIntriguingProtagonistsUptightFemale Protagonists Author:Tom Robbins
“Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!” EndsProcessCompanyDesignFemaleInnovationConsumersEmployeeTargetUsersEmpoweredMarketplaceLikelihoodUtilizing Author:Indra Nooyi
“[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.” ChildrenReasonCompanyConditionsFemaleGenderRatingHaving ChildrenInsurance Companies Author:Gloria Steinem
“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.” IfsShouldTogetherJobsForceSocialCompanySupportModelsConcernFemaleTasksOrganizationFunctionPsychologicalRelatedDeficiencySociabilityTask ForcesPositive Image Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.” PeopleWorldWellsIdeasGirlSoundWaterCompanyIssuesOne ThingProductsFemaleEmpowermentCleanMarketingHumanitarianJournalistLiteracyLike SomethingFemale EmpowermentClean WaterNew Products Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.” IfsMenPlayFilmCompanySupportHe ManFemaleTheaterDollarsGapsFewerDistribution Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important.” ThinkingImportantBookCompanyRolesHusbandFemaleScriptsProductionsComplicatedAfrican AmericanMy HusbandJulius Author:Viola Davis
“My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.” PersonsSaidRealJobsMotherValuesFatherCompanyTalentColorPeriodsSkillsFemalePaidBlindMalesGenderExecutivesBest PersonReal Knowledge Author:Ivanka Trump
“We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.” ShouldWellsLongShowsPastGivenCompanyDirectorsFemaleMalesDataBoardsUnfortunatePercentagesConstituents Author:Anne M. Mulcahy
“But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).” IfsWritingGirlImaginationCompanyBoysCreaturesFemaleLettersSpeciesConvincedMythologyThings To DoLiarsGossipCampsJudgedBootsUrgentShortcomingsSupperHeadquartersSergeantsBoot CampBraggarts Author:Robert A. Heinlein