Michelle Bachelet Quotes

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

[Concerning] the promotion of women. The system was designed by men and I am told constantly that "we have no women who are ready yet " for promotion. I can break that through perseverance—but it is an example of the system frustrating our purposes rather than serving them.

As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change.

I think there is a war on women in technology.

I think the biggest issue for women in the workplace is men!

Obviously it's true that as you go up the ranks, the number of women starts to decline. Whether that's because of 'self-deselection' or other barriers, I think that depends on the firm, the industry, and the person.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

Perhaps the major challenge during my time in office was getting employers to understand how much more needed to be done to give women their fair share of employment opportunities.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

… better a glass door than a glass ceiling.

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, ... home economics than financial economics.

Now women have equal rights, but we are only equal on paper.

Huge studio movies are handed over to a man with less experience before they're handed over to a woman with less experience. That's a fact. But I think it's not just about men not hiring women: it's about women not hiring women, too.

Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

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

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.