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Do you or any women you know work in technology within financial services? Have you, or they, made a significant contribution to the business? womenintechnology.co.uk is once again sponsoring the &quo...
Managing your boss in the right way can be the key to promotion or the key to your downfall. This includes what details you should give them and what information you are best keeping to yourself. To m...
The Times produced an interesting piece on the glass ceiling recently – Camilla Cavendish wrote that the concept is actually in women’s heads and that they actually fear promotion as males and females...
The above may make us laugh but was in fact the title of a guide for male supervisors in the 1940s. We may complain that we still have a long way to go to achieve gender equality in the workplace but ...
We’ve heard before that women are getting paid less than men for various reasons – they give up work for children, discrimination and so on. Now, research from the University of Essex says that women ...
Ever dreamt of going into space? Well now you might just have a chance! The European Space Agency has announced that it is looking for new astronauts and that they want the right staff rather than the...
It seems that careers in technology and architecture may have a lot more in common than we may initially think. Both involve long working hours and hard work. Both offer first class career development...
A recent survey by the CBI employer’s organisation has found that there is a distinct lack of graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths (or stem) subjects. Almost half of organisations a...
Recent research from the ‘Working Smarter, Not Harder’ networking event held by womenintechnology.co.uk and Microsoft highlighted some key problems for women working in IT surrounding work / life bala...
It was only recently that we heard David Cameron pledging to give a third of ministerial positions to women if the Conservatives win the next election. Now following suit, the first female governor ge...
It’s always discouraging to read the latest statistics that show significant gender pay gaps. The Office for National Statistics now say that although male / female pay divide has almost disappeared a...
Research by Tesco that questioned 1000 parents and their children revealed that girls over seven are ahead of boys (who have traditionally been equal with girls at that age and way ahead in older age ...