“I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.” Has BeensDoorsIndustryFemaleMalesAcceptedFlatteredRockers Author:Suzi Quatro
“Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.” AbleNightSexStruggleIndustryDemandFemaleMalesForestsExceedProstitutionPatronOverflowPower StruggleAmoralityService IndustryTestifyingMoppingMopping Up Book:Sexual Personae Source: Sexual Personae
“The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.” IndustryMalesBrewing Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
“The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception.” Has BeensIndustryMalesGamingInception Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“When there are more males in the industry to begin with, it just has a more male feel, and that pushes the girls away.” FeelsGirlIndustryMales Author:Jennifer Pahlka
“I'm always excited and enthusiastic to have women join the technical side of the industry. Without making ridiculous stereotypes, which this might be, I have had clients - male and female - who said they feel more comfortable working with a woman in the mastering capacity for various reasons.” FeelsSaidReasonMightSidesIndustryComfortableCapacityFemaleMalesVariousExcitedRidiculousClientsStereotypeEnthusiastic Author:Emily Lazar
“But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.” IfsKnowsMadeStillsHardFilmCoursesHurtKnow HowParticularIndustryDirectorsToughMalesSizeGladHard TimesTough TimesSexistFilm IndustryLockersHurt Locker Author:Nicole Holofcener
“Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA.” MenLittlesPlayIndustryHigherMusic IsMalesPlentyNbaWnba Author:Cassie Ventura
“We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the effects on young people, on cancer, these candy cigarettes that they promised had nothing to do with kids, Joe Camel that they promised was focused on the, you know, 55-year-old white male smoker, which we know is wrong. And we finally got out of that. Why in the world would we want to create the same thing, just not Big Tobacco this time, Big Marijuana?” PeopleKnowsWorldWantYearsBigsKidsYoungWhiteEffectsCenturyIndustryMalesCancerFocusedComing OutMarijuanaCigaretteCandyLiedTobaccoCamelsSmokersBeing LiedTobacco Industry Author:Kevin Sabet
“For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work in an incredible way. But what I do ask is when I join a production I want to make sure that the male actor isn't making four times my salary, which has been true, or seven times my salary. And if that's true you go, you know what, I don't need this job. It's not really asking for more - it's asking for something that is respectable and equal to the male actor and you have to go, why are women being valued less?” IfsKnowsWayWantNeedsHas BeensJobsActorsAsksFourIndustryLuckyEqualAskingSevenMalesIncrediblesProductionsSalaryStarvingRespectableSo LuckyTrue You Author:Jessica Chastain
“The industry financial advisers, on average about 85% male, tends to be a more mature financial adviser - so I think in their 50s, really. For so many companies, in their 60s. In fact, there is one company that was telling me they had more financial advisers over the age of 80 than under the age of 30.” ThinkingFactsAgeCompanyIndustryMalesFinancialAverageMatureAdviser Author:Sallie Krawcheck