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Previously published on Computer Weekly
The government is considering plans to extend parental leave by four weeks and enable the mother and father to split the leave between them. At the moment, mothers are entitled to 52 weeks leave and fathers two weeks. The current regulations allow mothers to share up to six months of their entitlement with the father. However, if they choose this route, t...
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Recently, one of the popular blogs that I read, kottke.org,featured a post pointing to Pixar’s gendar gap. The basis of the post wasin highlighting that there is a gap in the amount of female protagonists inPixar movies vs the amount of male protagonists. The author mentions that thereare potentially several reasons for this gap, one reason being that there aremostly men working in the animation d...
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Previously published on HR Review
It’s hardly breaking news that, in many instances, women are still facing a glass ceiling when it comes to reaching to partner or board level.
However, recent trends suggest that there may be more to the problem than the typical factors involved, such as plain discrimination, long breaks from the office and flexible working needs. The fact is that there is a...
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The Telegraph reports that the Government cuts set to come into effect will force half of mothers to reduce the amount of work they do. In fact, an average working family is set to lose over £400 in childcare tax credit. The article covers a survey carried out by Netmums which asked over 2000 working mums how they would be affected.
68% of respondents said that as a direct result of ...
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Originally published on WITsend
The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, warned recently that a combination of high prices, spending cuts and the VAT rise created a "dangerous cocktail" that would have a serious impact on women and children.
The comments came in light of the changes that came into play when the new tax year began last week, as tax thresholds were increased, child benefit and working...
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With Germany proposing an introduction of mandatory quotas for women on boards and France, Spain and Italy also considering the idea, should the UK think about introducing gender quotas?
It’s a controversial topic. But from experience of talking to many women in IT, I do not think that they would be popular amongst British women. Instead targets and education of middle management need to be...
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European MEP’s have overwhelmingly voted in favour of increasing the number of weeks women receive full pay whilst on maternity leave. Currently, women are entitled to fourteen weeks at full pay but the proposed change would see this rising to twenty weeks.
If this does come into force it will be welcome news for female staff, giving them the ability to spend more time at home following t...
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The gender pay gap for full time work is 16.4%, that’s according to the Government Equalities Office. This figure remains high despite measures by the government to address the issue of gender discrimination.
I recently received an email from Intellect, the body representing the UK’s technology industry, about their Women in IT Forum. Here at womenintechnology.co.uk, we support ini...
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Do you know when the Equality Act is coming into force? Do you know how discrimination laws are changing? If not, then you’d better swot up! October will see the majority of the Equality Act coming into force, with the remaining provisions coming in April of next year – and there are pretty big changes. But why is this important?
Well, for organisations it’s vital that staff are up to date with...
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Politics | Women | Women in business
2010 looks to be a good year for progress. We now have a new government, but also the new Equality Bill should come into force in October. It has now passed its final stage in parliament and will replace lots of separate laws and measures with one new act to make it easier for organisations to understand.
Of course saying that, law is never that easy to understand, so what will the bill mean i...
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