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  • BCS women's group sets up mentor scheme

    Using a career mentor or being a mentor to other people can aid personal development, according to the BCS Women Specialist...25 Jul 2003

  • Everywoman in Technology Awards 2012: Winners

    The everywoman in technology awards took place in the ballroom at the London Savoy.   Winner Laura Earle, executive communication manager, services, EMEAR at Cisco, Suzanne Dubois, director of proj...02 Apr 2012

  • Cisco everywoman in Technology Awards: The winners’ stories

    The IT sector has celebrated the UK’s most talented women working within the industry for a second year through the 2012 Cisco everywoman in Technology Awards, which was held at The Savoy in London...03 Apr 2012

  • Women in IT want to be the boss

    Being a CIO or a self-employed entrepreneur was the most popular ambition in a survey of 400 women working in the technology industry. The women were questioned at the recent W-tech event and 14% s...13 Aug 2009

  • Better work culture would get women into IT, says BCS

    A better work culture would bring women back to IT, the British Computer Society (BCS) said today. Companies need to make their working cultures more attractive to women, by becoming aware of the d...11 Nov 2008

  • IT industry has vital role in pulling UK out of recession

    The IT industry has a vital role to play in bringing Britain out of recession and driving the economy over the next ten years, according to panelists at a BCS debate today. But the inability of som...23 Sep 2009

  • Thousands of women go missing from IT

    About 37,000 women have gone missing from IT between 2001 and 2007, according to the British Computer Society (BCS). The BCS said such a large number could help to alleviate the industry's much pub...14 Nov 2008

  • Snow halts W-Tech women in IT event

    A major event to help promote women in IT has been postponed because of the severe weather conditions in the South East. More than 1,000 women had registered for W-Tech 2009 in London, The free IT ...02 Feb 2009

  • Girl Geek Dinners changing the tech industry

    Four years ago, Sarah Blow set up the Girl Geek Dinners networking events because of the alienating feeling she experienced when arriving at IT events and being asked if she was someone's girlfrien...28 Aug 2009

  • Arise Dame Wendy Hall

    Computer scientist Wendy Hall has been made a dame in the New Year honours list. The University of Southampton professor was honoured for services to science and technology. She was awarded a CBE i...05 Jan 2009

  • Ada Lovelace Day - raising awareness of women's achievements in IT

    With a programming language named after her, the influence of the world’s first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, has spread much farther than her fame. Female role models Sarah Blow, software eng...24 Mar 2009

  • Photos: Ada Lovelace Day - Women in IT we admire

    Ada Lovelace Day - Michele Hyron Michele Hyron is the French woman in charge of the London 2012 Olympics IT. She is the chief integrator at Atos Orgin, the main IT supplier for the Games.   Today (...23 Mar 2009

  • Female BCS membership increases

    Women IT specialists are getting increasing support from the BCS after big growth in female membership of the society. Women have accounted for 22% of new members in the recent growth, which has ta...14 Dec 2005

  • BCSWomen wins Communications in Business award for networking

    The BCSWomen forum has been named Network Professional of the Year in the Communications in Business Awards 2006. The judges said they selected the forum in recognition of the excellent work it car...26 Sep 2006

  • Girls see IT as more than jobs for the boys but are unsure of options

    BCS survey shows a lack of understanding of variety of IT options, but on the postive side IT was not seen as a career choice just for boys. The IT profession and careers advisers are failing to sh...18 Jul 2005

  • Closing the gender gap

    New uses of IT could boost attractiveness of industry, says Wendy Hall Earlier this year the British Computer Society conducted a survey of UK schoolgirls, focusing on the failure to attract more w...19 Sep 2005

  • How to capitalise on mobile advances

    The finalists for this year's British Computer Society IT Professional Awards, held in association with Computer Weekly, have now been selected by the judges. These finalists, already recognised as...13 Sep 2005

  • It is gender, not skills that still counts in IT

    Women cannot win in the IT jobs stakes, no matter how skilled they are, according to research presented to a recent BCS meeting John Kavanagh. The meeting also heard that women need to be more conf...24 Jan 2001