Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre. Please read our Privacy Policy.
A community for all professionals in IT dedicated to encouraging and empowering women who are currently working in the technology sector.
With experts this time last year predicting a surge in equal pay claims from women, it looks as though the situation was misjudged. Recent figures show that in the 11 months to February just under 42,...
Given the amount of negative press swirling around the financial services industry--and in particular around the banking segment of the industry, it would be great if some of the banks who are not at ...
With a significant increase in the number of redundancies and the need for a productive workforce, flexible working is the last thing that employers should be thinking about, isn’t it? Well, according...
Is equally shared parenting the way forward in order to address gender equality? This article in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/19/parenting-shared-responsibility-viv-gr...
If you want to delve into the technology of the future, Singularity University may just be the place for you. Backed by Google and Nasa, the school is headed by Ray Kurzweil, an inventor / scientist
If there were more women in top positions within banks and other financial institutions, would the credit crunch have happened? According to Gillian Wilmot’s comment in the FT, apparently not (http://...
It looks as though the looming changes in the law surrounding equality couldn’t come at a better time. The UK is now ranked 13th in the global league table of gender equality. Although out of 130 coun...
It looks like a development in the law could make a big difference to the fate of women in the business world. A new equality law would let employers use positive action in the recruitment process – h...
There have been plenty of predictions over the years that have never materialised – I’m sure if we went back to the 1950s there would be a few people who would be surprised (and perhaps disappointed) ...
Returning to work after having a baby seems to be a hot topic at the moment. First of all, it was disclosed that there are EU plans which set to ban women from returning to work within six weeks of gi...
womenintechnology.co.uk and the British Computer Society would like to invite you to W-Tech 2009, a one day recruitment, career development and networking event for female technologists including stu
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...