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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 "Outstanding Contribution by a Female in Financial Technology" prize at this year’s European Banking Technology Awards, to be held in November ...
30 June 2008
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 make sure your career goes in the right direction (i.e. up) there are some things you should omit from telling your CIO. Computerworld asked their top...
23 June 2008
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 are programmed to want different things. She cites a new book by Susan Pinker which says that biologically, baby boys are exposed to testosterone wh...
04 June 2008
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 this serves as a reminder that we have made great progress in terms of women’s roles and treatment. Here are a few of the best tips – read, laugh and...
30 May 2008
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 are earning less than men because they spend more time doing housework. Apparently women in couples spend up to eight hours a week longer on housewor...
27 May 2008
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 “Right Stuff”. The attributes they are looking for in a new recruit include a science or engineering degree, some competency in Russian and the abil...
22 May 2008
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 opportunities. And both are male dominated professions with females making up a low percentage of the workforce - many women do not return to either...
20 May 2008
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 across all sectors are facing difficulties in trying to find staff skilled in these areas, which is leading to employers looking overseas to find the ...
30 April 2008
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 balance and flexible working. Although over half (55%) of women that attended felt that they did have a work / life balance, almost all added an “althoug...
23 April 2008
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 general has just been appointed in Australia and the newly re-elected Spanish government now has more female ministers than male ones. With politics tr...
21 April 2008
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