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I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

The only difference between men and women in science is that the women have the babies. This makes it more difficult for women in science but should not be seen as a barrier, for it is merely another challenge to be overcome.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.