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A place for women in IT - opinion and debate on how to bring more women into the technology sector.
June 2011
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Are you the joker or an organiser? Change your role at work by breaking with tradition
- University of Gloucestershire 23 Jun 2011 -
Avanade sets up women in IT initiative to increase number of female staff from 14% in UK
- University of Gloucestershire 16 Jun 2011 -
A firm with a majority female board and 165% increase of women in digital sector? Unheard of...
- University of Gloucestershire 10 Jun 2011
Nikki Walker, diversity & sustainability director at Cisco Europe guest blogs for WITsend
Business technology services firm, Avanade, has launched a new initiative to tackle its lower than average number of female staff
While most organisations are struggling to bring just one woman to its boardroom table, IT recruiter FDM has revealed it has a majority female presence on its managerial board
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Debra Lilley becomes first female chair of UK Oracle User Group
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Should parental leave be longer and more flexible?
06 Jun 2011 -
The London Hopper Colloquium 2011 debates computer research, Smart Dust and tooting your own horn
- University of Gloucestershire 06 Jun 2011 -
Reports from BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium
- University of Gloucestershire 02 Jun 2011 -
Janet Lustgarten, CEO at KX Systems, on shampoo apps, databases and founding her own company
- University of Gloucestershire 01 Jun 2011
Debra Lilley became the first female UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) chairman in March 2011. She talks to WITsend about how making a cup of tea started her on an IT career path
The government is considering plans to extend parental leave by four weeks and enable the mother and father to split the leave between them.
Caroline Wardle, professor at Queen Mary, University of London, guest blogs about the London Hopper Colloquium 2011 event, Smart Dust and an IBM poster competition
Hannah Dee, lecturer in computer science at Aberystwyth University and BCSWomen deputy chair, writes a guest blog post for WITsend on the recent BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium
From building applications for buying shampoo to founding her own database company, Janet Lustgarten, CEO of KX Systems, talks to WITsend