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Cisco CTO's tips for a top career

Chief Technology Officer at Cisco systems, Padmasree Warrior gives ten top tips for women to 'charge ahead' in their careers in technology and engineering. Click here to read them. read more

Created on 9 March 2010

Younger women face "gender fatigue," subtle bias

Many businesses have made flexible working, parental leave, mentoring and womens networks a norm. However, has this meant that more subtle discrimination is more difficult to spot when on the face companies appear to be imbracing gender diversity? Elisabeth read more

Created on 9 March 2010

India's ruling party loses support over women's bill

Two political parties in India have withdrawn support over a controversial bill to reserve one third of government seats to women. The bill is a test for congress to use as a basis for their election winning platform of enclusive growth. The congress read more

Created on 9 March 2010

Study finds men outnumber women on TV two-to-one

Men outnumber women on TV by two-to-one and only one in ten women on television are over 40 compared to six out of ten men. Women make up only a third of participants in factual television and only 31 pecent in news where 69 per cent of the time they read more

Created on 9 March 2010

99th International Women's Day reveals same glass ceiling

Employment website Monster.co.uk have found that out of 1,741 UK employees only 15% of the women in the survey felt they benifitted from equal opportunities in the workplace, whereas almost four out of ten men thought that they did. read more

Created on 9 March 2010

Why Women Are the Biggest Emerging Market

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu claims women are now driving the global economy.  In developing nations, women's income is growing at 8.1 percent, compared to 5.8 percent for men. Globally, women control nearly $12 trillion of the $18 trillion read more

Created on 9 March 2010

Lack of women in the boardroom "completely unacceptable" says Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown has asked businesses to explain the lack of women in UK boardrooms, calling the absence "completely unacceptable". The result comes after research by the government equalities office found that 60 per cent of people think there read more

Created on 8 March 2010

International Womens Day

Today is the 99th anniversary of the first International Womens Day in 2011. Managing Director of Talking Talent, Chris Parke has been blogging about todays issues around women at work. To join the debate click here. read more

Created on 8 March 2010

Women Outnumber Men in US Workforce

Over 800,000 more women than men are on January 2010 payrolls in the US. The result is not so much that more women are working but that more men have been made redundant in the economic downturn. The payroll result doesn't include many farmworkers read more

Harman accused of hypocrisy over equality

Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader has been acused of rank hipocrisy after it has been revealed that the proportion of seats in the public body occupied by women fell from 37.5 in 2004 to 32.6 this year despite government initiatives to read more

Created on 26 February 2010

Do Millennial Women Truly Have It All?

Tina Vasquez discusses whether young career driven women can have it all in this artcle from The Glass Hammer. According to an online study by the Millennial Women Workplace Success Index, 94 percent of women believe they will achieve work/ read more

Created on 25 February 2010

US Navy closer to having females

Officials announced  yesterday that women will be able to serve on US navy submarines. The US Army's chief of staff General George Casey wants to change the restrictions put up on women about working on frontline combat roles and the congress now read more

Created on 25 February 2010
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