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What I learnt from taking part in unconscious bias training
- Business Editor 15 Oct 2018 -
Exclusion and the Skills Shortage
- Business Editor 08 Oct 2018 -
Everywoman extends nominations for 2019 everywoman in tech awards
- Business Editor 02 Oct 2018
Anyone who plays a part in promoting diversity in the technology industry will have heard of unconscious bias training, and earlier this year I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to take ...
In this contributed blog post Leon Brown, owner of Nextpoint, talks about the role exclusion pays in the technology industry's diversity gap. Attracting and retaining skills required to develop and ...
Everywoman is giving people an extra two weeks to put women forward to be considered for the 2019 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards. Now in its ninth year, 2019’s awards focus on the theme ...
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Why we need to focus on inclusivity as well as diversity in the tech industry?
- Business Editor 01 Oct 2018 -
The gender investment gap
- Business Editor 27 Sep 2018 -
#MeToo and the impact on industry
- Business Editor 05 Sep 2018 -
Being a data scientist isn’t all hard stuff
- Business Editor 23 Aug 2018 -
Why should girls think about a career in tech?
- Business Editor 06 Aug 2018 -
How to close the gender pay gap
- Business Editor 31 Jul 2018 -
Three ways leaders can increase diversity in tech
- Business Editor 25 Jul 2018
This year’s Computer Weekly diversity in technology event focused on the importance of inclusivity in attracting and retaining diverse talent. Inclusivity can mean many things to many people, and ...
In this guest post Anna Faelten, associate partner at EY, talks about the difference in investment between male and female run startups, and how we can start to close this gap. According to data ...
GUEST BLOG: In this guest post Mark McBride-Wright, founder of EqualEngineers, talks about how the #MeToo campaign has impacted the technology industry The #MeToo campaign has become one of the ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Bryony Hill, Technical Data Scientist at Nominet, discusses the misconceptions around being a data scientist. When I tell people I’m a data scientist, ...
In this guest blog post, student Abi Pearson describes how her work experience at industry body techUK made her consider a career in tech for the first time. I am a sixteen-year-old woman and I'm ...
In this guest blog post Jenny Kelly, client relationship manager - business partner at Computer Futures, talks about how companies can increase diversity in their organisation and end the gender ...
In this guest blog post, Vivian Chan, Founder and CEO of Sparrho, suggests three ways in which leaders can increase diversity in tech. Women make up the largest single economic force in the world, ...
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The pipeline problem; how do we get more girls into technology?
- Business Editor 02 Jul 2018 -
Stem gender pay gap can only be addressed by closing the skills gap
- Business Editor 04 Jun 2018 -
It’s time to stop stalling on women in STEM
- Business Editor 24 May 2018 -
The sky is the limit for UK tech – as long as we embrace diversity
- Business Editor 22 May 2018 -
Wise Conference 2018: The importance of calling out bad behaviour
- Business Editor 14 May 2018
In this guest post, Jo Morfee, co-founder of Innovate Her, discusses the UK's digital skills pipeline and how to encourage more girls to be part of it One of the main factors impeding technology ...
In this contributed blog post, Simon Jones, innovation director at Black Pepper, discusses how closing the tech skills gap can contribute towards closing the gender pay gap. Nearly fifty years ...
In this guest post, Sheila Flavell, COO of FDM Group discusses the problems faced by women in the Stem industries. The gender pay gap reporting process has left many companies facing difficult ...
In this contributed blog post, Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates explains that the UK's tech ecosystem has the potential to be the best in the world, as long ...
The 2018 conference for Wise, a campaign for gender balance in technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem), highlighted some of the key failings of the Stem industries when it comes to gender ...