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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Gender pay gap widens

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 among young people, as women get older and are having children, men are earning over 20% more than their female counterparts. Despite great advances i...

18 April 2008

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Girls and computers

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 brackets) when it comes to competency with computers. Girls proved more competent than boys when it came to searching on Google, editing pictures and...

25 March 2008

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Gender pay gap rages on

Here we are again! Now another survey – this one from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) - tells us that women around the world are being paid 16% less than their male counterparts. This is not exactly new news, but is still quite shocking when you consider all the legislation in place to prevent this and the 21st century attitudes...

19 March 2008

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Working Smarter, Not Harder

Are your days a battle between work, rest and play? Many women struggle to achieve the good work / life balance that we hear so much about. The competitive, demanding and rapid moving IT sector means long hours and hard work, which women in the industry have to juggle with their social and family lives as well as finding time to rest! The governme...

13 March 2008

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Politically correct?

Political savvy – do women in IT have it? Over three quarters (77%) of attendees at a recent womenintechnology.co.uk networking event, co-hosted with Société Générale, felt that they did not have sufficient skills to manage in a political context. And just over half (53%) felt that they had been the victim of labelling, stereotyping or sabotage. ...

06 March 2008

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Glass ceilings

We read about it in the press every week - how women get paid less than men and that women are far and few between in top level jobs. But is the situation really this gloomy and do glass ceilings really exist? There are certainly stats to suggest that they do. The 2007 National Management Salary Survey found that women are paid an average of 12...

06 February 2008

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HR rates poorly in supporting women in IT sector

A survey of women in IT has found that HR departments are less supportive to women than line managers and colleagues. The survey, carried out last year by Microsoft and online career and networking portal womenintechnology.co.uk, found that when asked to rate the support they received as a female employee, respondents saw HR departments as the le...

06 February 2008