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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 moreCreated 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 moreCreated 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Two political parties in India have withdrawn support over a controversial bill to reserve one third of government seats to women.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 moreCreated 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 moreCreated 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 moreCreated 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 moreCreated 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 moreCreated 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 moreCreated 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 moreHarman 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 moreCreated 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 moreCreated 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 moreCreated on 25 February 2010