Kate Ward

“The breakthrough we need is when we’re at a point where it’s socially unacceptable for a panel or conference or boardroom to be all men,” she said. “The breakthrough will come when no one finds it acceptable when only one or two women are in anything. We’re not anywhere close to a place where there is true assumed equality.”
― Kristin Gilger, There's No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead

“They described feeling as if they had never truly arrived, questioned whether someone else could do the job better, and mentally steeled themselves to the possibility of getting tossed at any moment.”
― Kristin Gilger, There's No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead

“Many of the women we interviewed find themselves carefully calibrating their behavior in the workplace. They worry about being too motherly, too brash, too opinionated, and not opinionated enough. They worry about being judged.”
― Kristin Gilger, There's No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead

“After so many years, I was used to it. It was just another remark in a long, long list of offensive, obnoxious, ignorant, destructive things said to me and others by people with some power or sway. But the truth of the matter is this: It wasn’t OK. And it wasn’t OK for me to be OK with it. For me to put up with it. To laugh it off, to excuse it, to use it as a cocktail-party tale. It wasn’t OK for me. And it isn’t OK for my amazing nieces, for my brave colleagues, for the women coming up behind me.”
― Kristin Gilger, There's No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead