Quote

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!