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Women In IT Paid 20 Percent Less Than Men
News Women in IT and telecoms careers now typically earn £30,940, compared with £38,800 for men. Men aged over 50 earn on average £40,140, compared with just £24,960 for women over 50. Jan Peters, manager of the Women's Forum at the British Computer...
[February 27, 2008, 14:27]
Why Are Women In IT An Endangered Species?
News At a conference late last month, Summers suggested that innate differences between the genders could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Why are women in IT an endangered species?
[February 7, 2005, 16:35]
IT Industry 'still Failing' To Retain Women
News Addressing the Women in IT Conference in London on Wednesday, Hewitt noted that women are clearly under-represented in IT employment. Hewitt quoted figures based on a report from the Women in IT Champions Group, which was created at last year's...
[January 22, 2003, 17:25]
National Curriculum Switching Girls Off IT
News Speakers at the "Women in IT" conference hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department for Education and Skills (DfES) agreed that the education system is to blame for female apathy towards IT.
[January 17, 2002, 10:31]
Fiorina Will Not Be Drawn On Dunn
News But speaking on Friday at the 2006 Women's Leadership Conference at Babson College, Massachusetts, she deflected all inquiries about the recent turmoil at HP. And this being a conference on women and leadership, the corollary was how to succeed as...
[September 18, 2006, 10:35]
Jane Wakefield: Let's Talk About Sex
News Everyone is doing it and it would seem the Internet has finally achieved what a decade of bra-burning never could -- equality for women. I can be whatever you want me to be -- men can have the cyberbabe of their dreams and women can have their...
[May 15, 2000, 7:03]
A Year Ago: Is The 'nerd' Factor Keeping Women Out Of High-tech?
News Department of Commerce official said at the Women in Technology International Summit here Monday. There's no simple solution to bringing more women in" to skilled high-tech jobs, but companies must first consider sending their women executives out...
[October 18, 1999, 7:00]
US Report: Is The 'nerd' Factor Keeping Women Out Of High-tech?
News Department of Commerce official said at the Women in Technology International Summit here Monday. There's no simple solution to bringing more women in" to skilled high-tech jobs, but companies must first consider sending their women executives out...
[October 20, 1998, 14:01]
Is Internet Sex Bad For Your Health?
News And while many still believe online porn is a male dominated pastime, researchers say otherwise: According to the researchers, an equal number of women are also getting in on the act, although females generally prefer sex chat to pictures.
[May 8, 2000, 12:21]
IT Companies 'discriminate Towards Women'
News Women no longer seem worried about being discriminated against in the IT industry and some have the opposite concern - that they are given additional opportunities because of their gender. Instead, they emphasised that women should take...
[September 14, 2005, 12:05]
Fiorina Urges Companies To Combat The Digital Divide
News Fiorina, one of the highest-ranking women in the tech industry, told the audience that Jackson had called her to offer encouragement during her heated, and eventually successful, battle for HP to buy Compaq over the objections of some members of...
[May 1, 2003, 8:38]
Timms: IT Education Key For A Competitive UK
News Clayton called for more women to be encouraged to enter the IT industry, and also for government backing. There were more women in computing when I went to university in the 1970s than now. At the 2007 Parliament and the Internet Conference in...
[October 19, 2007, 18:32]
German City Reveals Linux Migration Tactics
News A local council in Germany may have found the secret to overcoming user reluctance to Linux -- stuffed penguins and powerful women. Speaking at the Open Source for Local Government conference in London, Bräuner explained that some users were afraid...
[February 11, 2004, 12:00]
Explaining The Disconnect Between Women And Video Games
News It's not that women don't understand video games, it's that video games don't understand women. In her address, Ray, author of the book "Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the Market" and a longtime spokeswoman for female gamers, offered up an...
[June 12, 2006, 10:50]
Women Haven't Broken The Venture Capital Ceiling
News Women In Technology International is looking to software and schools these days to give women a leg up in the tech world. The organisation, which is dedicated to promoting women in technology and providing networking opportunities for them...
[June 22, 2000, 10:24]
UK Holds Net Censorship Conference
News Donna Hughes, a lecturer at the University of Rhode Island, US, claimed the Internet was also being used by people in the UK to exchange information on where and how to buy women and children from third world countries for use as sex slaves.
[February 17, 1997, 10:22]
They Are Women In Technology. Hear Them Roar.
News "I see the Internet as a huge resource and a very powerful resource," said Ferris, the president of International Women's Democracy Center, a global group that trains women outside the U.S.to run for office in their countries.
[June 29, 1998, 9:09]
IBM AlphaWorks: From Software Theory To Fact
News ZDNet.co.uk caught up with Bennet at IBM Rational User Developer Conference 2008 in Florida to find out what the men (and women) in white coats will be looking at next. Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview...
[June 5, 2008, 12:27]
Sun Back In The Black
News The company highlighted new customers, including Aetna and Cigna, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, OfficeMax and Best Buy. Our initial outlook for the first quarter is a slight loss," McGowan said in a conference call.
[July 19, 2002, 8:54]
Control Freaks Caused HP Mess, Says Ex-board Member
News During the Dunn era, he described HP's board as consisting of "three women, two minority members and three technology geeks". In a lunchtime speech at the VentureOne Outlook Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Perkins aired his side of the...
[February 28, 2007, 7:52]
