Quotes About Bias

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

Men never fail to underestimate women.

Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn't matter how much we love them. They hate us"

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences. Yet there is a problematic belief that bigger data is always better data and that correlation is as good as causation.

How you frame a debate is very important. When you call someone an 'illegal alien,' you've already stacked the deck against them.

If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.

Hidden biases in both the collection and analysis stages present considerable risks and are as important to the big-data equation as the numbers themselves.

When women apply for a job, we ask ourselves, 'Am I qualified? Do I have the experience? Do I have the education? Do I have the abilities?' When a man looks at that job, he thinks, 'How much does it pay?' We need to stop second-guessing our abilities. We need to stand up and make ourselves heard.

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

People ask if I'm concerned about getting pigeonholed. No one asks, 'Ellen, you've done seven straight roles in a row. Shouldn't you shake it up, do something queer?' There's still that double standard.

When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income.

If you look at women in sports, they generally have to be more qualified because it is kind of a man's world. Guys will give guys a lot more breaks than a woman. I'd argue that women make fewer mistakes and are held to a higher standard. I think the ultimate respect you can pay to a woman in my business is you're my equal.

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

My last name is good and bad. It's great from an opportunity standpoint. The bad news is that you're prejudged often.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.