Archive for: December, 2008
a non-active Finextra member | 12/12/2008 | 1847 views
The gender pay gap and the lack of female managers are both issues that need to be solved. One reason for these situations is that many women leave the workforce, or reduce their responsibility within it, because of family commitments. It’s therefore great to see that more employers than ever are embracing flexible working practices to enable...
a non-active Finextra member | 10/12/2008 | 1701 views
So you’ve worked hard and got your degree – but is that enough? Some think not. The CBI is urging more universities to prepare students for the world of world by teaching them soft skills like communication and time management. The organisation’s research showed that companies found employability more important than degree subject when recruiting g...
Tracy Bramlet - The New Business Model - Westerville | 08/12/2008 | 2500 views
A few weeks ago, I finally got around to reading the cover story, Bitter Medicine in the latest issue of Trade Finance. Wrapped in some truly nice metaphors involving the Wild West and Casinos, the author delves into the sickness that has infected the financial services industry and the medicines that world governments will be applying shortly to t...
a non-active Finextra member | 08/12/2008 | 1458 views
For all you organised people out there, who have bought their 2009 diaries already, take note: on Tuesday 3rd February, womenintechnology.co.uk and the British Computer Society are holding W-Tech 2009, the first event of its kind for female technologists in the UK. W-Tech is a free event open to women working at any level in IT or who are intereste...
a non-active Finextra member | 02/12/2008 | 1754 views
There’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is that at current rates of progress, in the future women will be earning the same amount as men. The bad news is that none of us will reap the benefits as it will take 187 years (and even longer than that for women in the IT sector and for women in Scotland!) According to the Charte...
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