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Males in tech willing to show off their wad
News Male techies are willing to reveal the size of their pay packets if it helps women get a fairer pay deal. On average female IT professionals receive 17.2 per cent less than their male colleagues. An even larger proportion of the 1,000 IT workers... [02 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities
Comment It is inherently a white and male pursuit. Even though some of my best performing and talented employees have been women, they still make up only a fraction of my workforce. CIOs should also try, without reverse discrimination, to encourage a more... [28 Apr 2008]
UK top for techie training - almost
News The vast majority of IT staff working in the EU are male, with women representing less than one in five of the workforce across Europe - dropping to less than one in 10 for Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg and Portugal. [14 Aug 2007]
Women honoured for IT achievement
News A recent study from the DTI showed poor work-life balance and an old-boys' male-dominated working environment and industry culture are the core reasons why the IT sector is unattractive to women. In 1997, 27 per cent of the IT workforce was female... [28 Oct 2005]
Las Vegas at 100: Why it's tech's kind of town
Comment The all-male workforce building the dam needed to unwind and needed entertainment to make a perilous project more bearable. In part this is buoyed by the fact Las Vegas has a relatively large resident tech workforce maintaining the systems which... [16 May 2005]
Cost of getting more women into tech: Millions
News To try and turn around the trend of male domination, the government is opening a new £4.5m centre, the UK Resource Centre for women in science, engineering and technology (SET), in Bradford. The centre itself will be devoted to getting businesses... [16 Sep 2004]
Teenagers dream of long hours and a job in IT
News On the downside there still appears to be an image problem in IT, with 21 per cent of female respondents put off by the fact IT is a male-dominated field. A spokesman for Foundation Degrees, which carried out the survey, said in a statement: "As... [05 Apr 2004]
Skills Survey 2003: Women in IT - are they getting a rough deal?
News While it is clearly true that fewer women are working in IT, for reasons outside the remit of this survey, those who are in the workforce appear to be enjoying near parity with their male colleagues in terms of percentage representation in certain... [01 Apr 2003]
Women in IT: Is there really a problem?
Comment I hope that the initiatives begun by the Women in IT (and similar) conferences will start to change, over time, the perception of IT as a 'male' industry, and allow opportunities for people from many different backgrounds to succeed. [30 Jan 2003]
Teleworking - Staying sane by the Seine
News Most non-flexible workers are male, single with relatively few responsibilities, and interested in the latest technical gadgets such as PDAs or WAP phones. Meanwhile Datamonitor claims 6.5 million UK workers work at home for part of the week - a... [22 Apr 2002]
