Women in Technology

A community for all professionals in IT dedicated to encouraging and empowering women who are currently working in the technology sector.

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Bad Data is Out of Fashion

Every day, I get email and snail-mail delivered faithfully, eagerly and hopefully into my mailbox by some organization that has spent time and money with the singular goal of delivering their message to little ol' me. They have either dedicated resources or paid to find my name and my address. Unfortunately, these same resources haven't bothere...

07 May 2009 /regulation /wholesale

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To tweet or not to tweet

There are many employers who ban the use of social networking sites during work hours so as to avoid an office of distracted employees. However according to recent research by the University of Melbourne, they may be better off allowing staff to use Twitter or Facebook whilst they work – workers who use the internet for personal reasons at work a

28 April 2009

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Parental leave?

With the ever evolving legislation surrounding maternity leave, the Equality and Human Rights Commission is proposing the introduction of ‘parental leave’, to replace the regulations which make the UK the most unequal country in Europe when it comes to these arrangements. Instead of the nine months paid leave available to women now, the Commission...

22 April 2009

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Networking made even easier

First there were the simple times where networking involved a face to face encounter and some phone calls. Then came along email, Facebook, LinkedIn and a whole other range of tools for the personal or professional networker to make use of. The Americans have devised a tool to make all this a little bit easier. ‘Poken’ is a digital business card –...

17 April 2009

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Equal pay claims down

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 42,500 cases were accepted by tribunals, significantly lower than the record 63,000 cases between 2007 and 2008. It is possible that the number of cases...

14 April 2009

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And Now the Rest of the Story

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 the center of the storm would step up to the plate and be a little (or even a lot) more visible. The results of a Nielsen IAG survey released yeste...

20 March 2009 /regulation /wholesale

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Flexibilism

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 to a recent piece in the Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/feb/14/work-life-balance-flexible-working, this isn’t the case. Julia Hobsba...

19 March 2009

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Equally shared parenting

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-groskop) is an interesting one, detailing how an American couple split their working week equally and divide household duties down the middle to reliev...

13 March 2009

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University with a difference

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 / futuregazer, who believes that computers will become more intelligent than humans and who plans to live forever. The institution will offer cour

09 March 2009

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Women and the credit crunch

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://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c7dcb27c-bbc3-11dd-80e9-0000779fd18c.html.) She argues that “the more financially rewarding the task the more men” and that “a let...

03 March 2009