Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'
The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.
I guess it's pretty diverse, but I do have quite a 30-and-older male audience coming out to the shows. I don't know if that's due to me being a female or what.
The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!
Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.
I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.
Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.
We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.
You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.
What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.
When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life.
Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.
As much as it's really important, obviously, as a woman in the industry to be choosing the stories which represent women, you also have to keep an eye on the male side.
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the Bruce Jenner effect.'
I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
As a woman who works in a male-dominated business - Hollywood, definitely, being one of them - I instinctually knew what that is like. You have to be strong and take care of yourself.
Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.
I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.
It was God's idea to make us male and female. And God's the one that instituted marriage.
I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.
So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?
I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.
I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.
I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?
I am the best male ally I have ever heard of for women and women's liberation.
There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.
The guys at Team Alpha Male, they're my friends. I have a lot of respect for those guys.
I've found that a lot of my male friends have great style and great appreciation for designers.
Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.
I'm male gigolo. Professionally? I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.
I mean, I've been in a very male-dominated industry from a very young age.
The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??
I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
I think the female actors are far more intelligent than the male actors.
I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.
I am Hindu, upper-caste, male, and able-bodied. So everything is on my side. That gives me the extra cushion that Swara Bhaskar won't get.
I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.
A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.
It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it -
it’s the fact that you are saying it.
Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don't.
We usually center our narratives that come out of Hollywood from a white male center.
Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.
May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.
If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty-years-old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.
there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men.
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