Chanda Kochhar Quotes

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man.

All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.

I've been really vocal about my disappointment about how the WNBA athletes get treated like second-class citizens in relations to the NBA when they're a subsidiary.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.

I have done a great deal of work; as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay... Women work in the field and do as much work, but do not get the pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value

I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

If we are to maintain a relevant and just industry, we must all open our eyes to the obvious lack of equality in wages, representation, and access.

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

I think what Sheryl Sandberg said about the importance of 'leaning in' is very true, but it's not sufficient.

Every woman needs to know when she's being discriminated against and what the reasons are why she isn't getting equal pay so we can close that pay gap.

I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.

As the highest-ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mom of two daughters, I believe if we're serious as a nation about empowering every American to pursue his or her own dreams, then true cases of gender discrimination need to be confronted.