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Written by Julia Kukiewicz
This week, we’ve been pondering women and their personal finances.
According to researchers from the Government-funded independent Money Advice Service, almost two-fifths of women are uncomfortable discussing money, compared with a third of men.
Money Advice speculate this is a confidence problem: 30% of women say they didn’t feel confident discussing fin...
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Written by Julia Kukiewicz
Earlier this week, the Government announced that the UK’s four biggest broadband providers – BT, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Sky – would start blocking adult content.
At least, that’s the impression readers of the major papers got.
The truth is the big four ISPs have only agreed to make their existing child protection software more easily available to new custo...
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A major part of bringing more women into the technology sector is campaigning for flexible working conditions and shared parental leave. So we were interested to come across this survey entitled “Working Parents & Carers Flexible Working Survey 2011” by myfamilycare.co.uk which shed some light on what working parents and carers really think about their options.
You can read the full survey ...
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Written by Lis Hubert.
This past summer I saw a post on the Life inPerpetual Beta site where Aliza Sherman, long time woman in tech,was interviewed. (Visit Aliza Sherman and Why We Should Start From Scratchto get more). It is an amazing interview for any woman who wants to become apart of tech or who has been in the tech community for some time. I highlyrecommend watching it and reading the comme...
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Last weekend teams from across the IT and digital media industry challenged themselves and challenged poverty to raise an impressive £30,000 for aid and development agency CARE International.
This year Women in Technology supported the CARE New Media Challenge, a multi-activity challenge for digital media professionals that took place in Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. Each participant co...
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According to Catalyst's latest study, Checking the Pulse of Women in Bioscience: What Organizations Need to Know, bioscience organizations are at risk of losing top female talent which could negatively impact their success. The study features insights about emerging industry trends from experts in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and academic medicine. The experts surveyed for this study emphasize how...
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Written by Julia Kukiewicz
Tablets were one of the biggest technology stories of 2010 but women are still less likely than men to embrace the technology. According to market research group Nielsen, 43% of US tablet owners are now female. In 2010, the figure was 39%.
Early adopters
Just as we’ve seen over the past few years with smartphones, early adopters still tend to be young, male and we...
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Previously published on HR Review
In February, Lord Davies released his independent review into Women on Boards. One of the most ambitious targets was that UK listed companies in the FTSE 100 should aim for a minimum of 25% female board member representation by 2015. While the reaction from politicians and business leaders to this was, on the whole, positive, an air of scepticism remained. Many...
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Written by Julia Kukiewicz
The gender gap in the way that we use technology is no closer to closing, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.
The body found that, unsurprisingly, we’re generally more reliant on internet access than ever before: 77% of households have internet access and 66% of us (and a much higher proportion in younger age groups) have made pur...
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Registration is now open for the 2011 Naturejobs Career Expo. The UK’s largest career fair and conference for the scientific community will take place on 22 September 2011 at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. Now in its fifth year, the expo attracts more than 1,000 scientists actively seeking their next career move.
In the exhibition hall, jobseekers can meet with potential...
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