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Female IT workers face pay gap of one-fifth
News The majority of female IT workers still believe their wages don't match up to those of male colleagues — despite almost four decades of the UK Equal Pay Act. But the group calculates this using the national gender pay gap and the average salary so...
[October 31, 2008, 11:25]
Resignations rise among female IT workers
News Among the 3,538 IT workers surveyed, female managers, on average, earned £45,465 in 2006, around £2,100 less than men. Compared to other sectors, women in IT are only the fifth most likely to resign: in the retail sector 11.7 percent of female...
[September 5, 2007, 8:44]
Female IT workforce shrinks again
News The figures, which come from research sponsored by the government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), show that just 16 percent of IT workers are women, down from 19 percent four years ago. Intellect's previous work indicates that long hours...
[November 24, 2006, 13:23]
Pay-gap report finds females in IT are better off
News Results from last year's silicon.com Skills Survey found that female IT workers were less likely to be pocketing the biggest salaries and more likely to be on the lowest rung of the wage ladder. Progress on gender pay equality in the UK has stalled...
[July 31, 2009, 9:11]
EC: Tech industry must recruit more women
News The tech and telecoms industry needs to get more women on board or risk confronting a shortfall of 300,000 IT workers in 2010, according to the European Commission. The group said only 16 percent of tech workers are women, and even that meagre...
[March 9, 2007, 14:41]
IT pay: Women get short end of stick
News But women with ten or more years of experience earned an average of 9 percent less than male workers with equivalent experience and skills. The virtual pay parity among less-experienced workers in the Techies.com study may dispel some of the myths...
[January 17, 2001, 10:13]
A Year Ago: Is the 'nerd' factor keeping women out of high-tech?
News That report shows employment levels for IT professionals nearly doubled between 1987 and 1997, and that unemployment among computer professionals in 1997 was 1.3 percent, less than one-third the unemployment rate for all workers.
[October 18, 1999, 7:00]
US Report: Is the 'nerd' factor keeping women out of high-tech?
News That report shows employment levels for IT professionals nearly doubled between 1987 and 1997, and that unemployment among computer professionals in 1997 was 1.3 percent, less than one-third the unemployment rate for all workers.
[October 20, 1998, 14:01]
Sexism still rife in IT support
News Male IT support workers earn on average 18 percent more than their female colleagues in similar jobs, according to research published on Monday. The research, commissioned by the Help Desk Institute, found that the average salary of male IT support...
[April 11, 2005, 14:35]
Needs outweigh wants in tight IT job market
News An economic downturn has forced scores of IT workers into unemployment, creating a glut of IT job applicants. Since then, he's had to reevaluate his skill sets, the market for IT workers, and companies' requirements.
[April 15, 2002, 15:06]
Women 'central' to saving UK tech industry
News Last year just 16 percent of tech workers were women, and the report warns that new talent in the IT industry is "diminishing at an alarming rate" as enrolments in technology-intensive courses decline and women remain unconvinced of a career in IT.
[April 16, 2008, 8:34]
Women quitting IT over lack of employer flexibility
News The BCS said technology workers who are able to plan for a career break are more likely to make a successful return to work rather than leave the profession altogether. Last week, the British Computer Society (BCS) revealed that around 37,000...
[November 17, 2008, 8:34]
Chipmakers agree to sponsor cancer research
News A UK study published in 2001 found high rates of several cancers in both male and female plant workers. Critics have charged for years that the chipmaking industry has not done enough to protect workers from the effects of the dangerous chemicals...
[March 19, 2004, 9:00]
DVLA staff sacked over pornographic emails
News According to reports, a further 101 workers have been disciplined for sending pornographic emails within the centre, which employs around 6,000 people. It is everywhere. It is hardcore stuff and very offensive," an employee at the centre told the...
[June 22, 2006, 10:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But with the news that a Danish company has decided not only to allow its workers to access porn on its office computers, but to pay for some of the better sites, I feel Inq proprietor Mike Magee's mission to inform, inflame and engorge has...
[May 28, 2004, 18:35]
Britain's Got Talent Management
Blog Over this time, Personnel Management turned into Human Resources, and us workers were labelled and treated in the same way as other company equipment (badly maintained and thrown on the scrapheap when we had outlived our usefulness - thanks to the...
[September 25, 2009, 13:01]
IT's fatal lack of attraction
Leader Now, the latest report from the DTI shows how effective decades of action have been: in the last four years, the percentage of female workers in IT has fallen from 19 percent to 16. For as long as anyone can remember, the great and good of the IT...
[November 27, 2006, 16:12]
It's not only about specialized recruitment agencies
Talkback A bigger problem I noticed in small companies, where recruitment process at first level is often managed by non-IT workers (e.g.a secretary looks at CV and invites only those, who suit the IT department's needs written on a sheet of a paper).
[September 27, 2007, 10:39]
Why are women in IT an endangered species?
News While the statistics for women IT workers are bleak, they have spawned dozens of efforts to attract women to the field and encourage those already there. It may be that the female is every bit as good as the male -- maybe better," she said.
[February 7, 2005, 16:35]
Techie TV comedy premieres online
News Linehan added that he believes that real IT workers will hopefully realise the show is actually a celebration of techies rather than a cynical attack. However, it isn't long before Roy and Moss realise that a female presence in their team can have...
[January 17, 2006, 13:30]
