gender gap
CIOs, consultants, IT pros: How much are you worth?
News In related news, the government's Women and Work Commission has found progress on closing the UK's gender pay gap has stalled. How much money can an IT helpdesk worker in London expect to take home on... [31 Jul 2009]
Pay gap: UK female execs better off in IT
News Writing in the report, Baroness Prosser of Battersea, chair of the Commission, said: "Not only do we need to see more action being taken to kick start the slow movement of the gender pay gap but also to... [30 Jul 2009]
Take the silicon.com 2009 Skills Survey
News Highlights of last year's survey include the revelation that the gender pay gap is still alive and kicking in IT, with a third of women in the lowest wage bracket. How is the UK's IT workforce faring in... [25 Jun 2009]
Skills Survey 2008 in pictures
Photo See the full story on the IT gender pay gap. See the full story on how the sexes are split on how to fix IT gender imbalance. See the full story here. Picture credit: CBS Interactive... [16 Dec 2008]
Women in IT 'a fifth worse off than men'
News Meanwhile the gender pay gap in IT remains worse than the national average. But the group calculates this using the national gender pay gap and the average salary so... [30 Oct 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News If IT is to plug its skills gap by attracting graduates from other disciplines the industry needs to convince students the work can be as exciting as its potentially wallet-fattening pay packets. The CRAC research also... [23 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment The EC says there is a shortage of around 300,000 qualified tech staff in Europe and that attracting more women into the profession is vital to help close that gap. At the CIO level that gender imbalance... [11 Jun 2008]
Males in tech willing to show off their wad
News The gender pay gap persists, and businesses that neglect to address it are risking alienating half their workforce. Male techies are willing to reveal the size of their pay packets if it helps women get... [02 May 2008]
Wanted: Women must save IT industry
News Gender balance in IT is not only an issue of social equality; rather it is central to the viability of an industry. The future of the UK's IT industry hangs on its ability to attract and employ more women. [15 Apr 2008]
Women told: Tech isn't 'boring'
News Attracting more women is therefore essential to help to close this skills gap, it claims. The EC has also published a wider report looking at gender balance in the upper echelons of senior management -... [07 Mar 2008]
Women deserting tech industry
News The number of women resigning from IT jobs has risen over the last year and the pay gap between the sexes widened for the first time in 11 years. Jo Causon, director of marketing and corporate affairs at the CMI, said... [04 Sep 2007]
Kids or computers? Female techies choose
News The gender gap extends to the payroll as a recent survey found half of women working in IT believe they are paid less than their male colleagues. Nearly three-quarters of female IT professionals with... [21 Nov 2006]
CIO salaries top £100k
News But a gender gap remains - with only eight per cent of CIOs being women. CIOs are enjoying a bumper payday, with average salaries up £20,000 since last year. Top tech execs are gaining increased... [20 Oct 2006]
Computers helping girls to beat boys at school
News This has implications for the gender educational gap as the research also showed that high levels of leisure use of ICT was correlated with a negative impact on educational attainment," the report said. [30 Aug 2005]
Hewitt wants to stamp out 'old boys network'
News According to DTI figures there is a 19.5 per cent gender pay-gap within society which is largely attributed to men and women falling into employment in starkly differing sectors. Hewitt said in a... [26 Oct 2004]