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Research from the University of Toronto has shown that women prefer to have a male boss. Stress levels increased when women employees had a female boss, as did depression, insomnia and headaches. The explanation given was that successful women find other women to be competition – and also that females see leadership as a male role. At womenintechn...
28 November 2008
Beware - the fact that you’re reading this post could signal that you have an illness. Do you spend six hours a day online? Do you live in front of your computer screen? Then you may be suffering from internet addiction, and apparently it’s no joking matter. China might become the first country to classify this as a clinical disorder and is planni...
17 November 2008
I read with interest ‘futurologist’ Richard Watson’s predictions for the next fifty years. So if you’re a technologist, or just wondered what life will be like in 2045, take a look at his book or the article here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/19/scifuture219.xml Interesting technological developments he believes ...
30 October 2008
UK women may have triumphed in the recent Olympic Games but it looks like the women of the UK aren’t so keen on cycling. Research shows that over half of women will not cycle to work because they’re worried about what they’ll look like when they arrive in the office with concerns including hair, make-up and sweating. Women were three times more li...
24 October 2008
It seems that British employers don’t look too kindly on social networking in the office. Apparently 35% of companies here have official restrictions in place on accessing sites like MySpace and Facebook during work hours, compared to only 17% in France and Germany and 16% in Italy. We can’t help being a sociable society can we?
16 October 2008
New research has shown that outsourcing low level IT jobs to countries such as India and China means that companies are both offering less technical opportunities for graduates whilst increasing mid level pay due to a lack of skilled personnel. However doesn’t this present a pretty big problem? The shortage of experienced and skilled technologists...
08 October 2008
Ever envied the criminal computer whizzes you see in films? Well, this may be the course for you. The University of Abertay in Dundee is offering an MSc in Ethical Hacking, to develop a new generation of security experts. If you’re secretly plotting a criminal plot, there’s bad news though – all applicants will be vetted.
03 October 2008
Yes, it’s cropped up again. More research tells us that there are not enough women in top jobs. The Equality and Human Rights Commission says that professional women are no longer facing a glass ceiling but a concrete one. Interesting facts include that it will take around 200 years for there to be equal numbers of men and women represented in par...
01 October 2008
Sexist men it appears can earn more than their more enlightened counterparts according to a US study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. The study kicked off in the late 70s(!) and asked a large sample whether they believed a woman's place was in the home, or whether the employment of women was likely to lead to higher rates of juvenile...
22 September 2008
Research by Catalyst has shown that women who work in a company that has several female directors have a greater chance of climbing the corporate ladder in the USA. This follows research that found organisations with more women in high positions perform better financially. This doesn’t seem too surprising as if women are occupying senior positions...
11 September 2008
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