Gail Kelly Quotes

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.

We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.

Men need to hire more women and put them in higher positions of power within organizations.

Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.

Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

Half of my employees are women.

I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

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.

I’m sure there are plenty of high-level positions available for qualified women in your department. And I am sure that there are many women already on your payroll who have been waiting for promotions for a long time. So go back to your departments and see what you can do. Then report to me next Friday how many you’ve placed.

You just sort of get used to being one of the only women on set, so it's really refreshing to start to enter a time when that's not the case anymore.

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

If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.

We want the next generation of products being innovated to reflect our users. And when women are not part of the equation, we won't have products that reflect the unique needs and opportunities across our society.

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

I think companies need to take more ownership over the gender gap themselves because if everybody does that, then overall, it will improve.

We need to do a better job of mentorships and role models to bring other young women along so that there's more women in our boardrooms, there's more women here in the United States Senate and in Congress. I think there's an important role for women to play.

No country can succeed if it denies itself the talents of half of its people.

The culture of tech companies cannot change if women aren't in the room.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.