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Women in IT: Tech has an image problem
News That women are underrepresented in the IT industry is well documented: male IT workers greatly outnumber females in the UK workforce according to IT sector skills body e-skills UK which calculates that less than a quarter (23 per cent)... [26 Nov 2009]
Pay gap: UK female execs better off in IT
News Progress on gender pay equality in the UK has stalled, says the government's Women and Work Commission (WWC) but senior female tech workers at least have reason to smile, according to new research. However wage and age... [30 Jul 2009]
Coming soon: Ads that know if you're male or female
News Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) has developed a gender-recognition system that could change the way advertising works in future. The technology uses sophisticated algorithms to differentiate facial... [19 Jun 2009]
Revealed: The UK's top technology executive
News To find out more about the silicon.com CIO50, check out the special report where you can view the full list of 50 CIO profiles, and navigate to see the top 10 CIOs, the top female CIOs, and breakdowns by financial... [10 Jun 2009]
A good year for public sector IT chiefs
News On this year's list we also have eight female CIOs - including this year's top CIO. While that's one down on last year's nine, it's still well above the 15 per cent figure of women in IT in general - and still above the... [10 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.06.09
Round-Up Having conferred with some of the (exclusively female) Friends fans at Silicon Towers, they report that Chandler is best described as "a sarcastic, Thanksgiving-hating, Baywatch-watching, Janice-loving woman-repeller. [05 Jun 2009]
Pronunciation Lexicon Adaptation for TTS Voice Building
White Paper A perceptual test showed that their work contributed to MOS improvement for American English male and female voices. This paper describes reducing phone label errors in TTS voice building by means of modeling of speaker... [29 May 2009]
Using SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 to Reduce the Cost of Diabetic Outpatients in Medicare
White Paper Kernel Density Estimation shows that for both male outpatients and female outpatients, the distributions of total charges follow a Gamma distribution. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the main causes for costs... [29 May 2009]
Are Men 'Cleverer' Than Women?: Deconstructing the Dogma of Female Intellectual Inferiority
White Paper This paper analyses discourses surrounding gender and the politics of Intelligence Quotient (IQ). It takes the position that the content of the news not always constitute factual account of the world but instead it imposes socio-economic... [01 May 2009]
Creating Anatomical Diagrams in Dermatology
White Paper SmartDraw's Medical & Anatomy collection included thousands of different images, symbols, and templates, including clip art for hundreds of different body parts, as well as templates for male and female figures. [15 Apr 2009]
UK spent £4.7bn online over Christmas
News We are finding the traditional female market is being joined by young men and professional males. UK consumers spent £4.67bn shopping on the web in December. According to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index for the... [15 Jan 2009]
Skills Survey 2008 in pictures
Photo Asked whether CIOs should use positive discrimination to increase the number of women in the industry - a tactic that has been used to ramp up numbers of female political candidates and boost the representation of women... [16 Dec 2008]
Editor's Blog: Techie slang escapes the server room
Comment Find out what the CIO Jury thinks about positive discrimination as a means to increase the number of female techies. "LOL, that code 18 thinks he's so book but really he's just a 404 CGI Joe. No idea what I'm talking about? [11 Dec 2008]
Women in IT: Positive discrimination not the key, say CIOs
News Despite only one in five tech workers being female, silicon.com's CIO Jury says that positive discrimination is not the right way to boost the number of women in the IT department.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [08 Dec 2008]
Do we really need more women in IT?
Comment Sector skills body e-skills UK says only around one in five of the IT workforce is female. In some countries, where the ratio of male to female MPs is especially poor, positive discrimination and... [01 Dec 2008]
