Quotes About Representation

If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.

Women are not all single-issue voters.

Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire.

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.

What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

The existence of glass ceilings in the corporate sector has been extensively researched and documented and there is no need to reiterate the fact. Women are also, usually paid less then men for the same jobs and are grossly under-represented at the top of the corporate pyramid.

Women are ruling in every sector, so why not in music?

So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive.

In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

The women are at an advantage - we represent the buying power in this country.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't.

If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.