Esther Duflo Quotes

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

Other things equal, we should give a chance to women. That's what I try to do.

I don't look at life in terms of checking the boxes, making sure you have enough women here and enough men there.

I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty. The government was putting pressure on universities to hire more women.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

Our experience shows - and survey after survey reveals - institutions are run better, communities are healthier when women are involved in solving the challenges of our society. Equal representation does not just lead to good democracy: it is democracy.

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States has had a solid history of commitment to its female athletes and expanding opportunity for women, and it is imperative that we continue on this path.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women... you get all of the different backgrounds. You don't want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I'm like, 'Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.'

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.