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Women in IT Forum - Activities

Quarterly Meetings

We invite members of the IT, Telecoms and Electronics IT community to participate in lively discussions on a range of topics pertinent to women working in these industries. We regularly welcome speakers of interest to the network.

Some of the previous themes for discussion at meetings have included:

Diversity in the Boardroom
Rates of Pay
Image & Leadership
Work-life-Balance
Meetings, Role Models & Mentoring

Previous speakers at Forum meetings have included:

Lyn Bird, Accenture
Loraine Martins, Audit Commission
Glenda Stone, CEO, Aurora
Louise O'Neill, BAE Systems
Zulfi Hussain, BT
Dr Kerry Platman, Cambridge University
Dr Val Singh, Cranfield School of Management
Karen Price, e-skills
Debbie King, Happy Computers
Louise Tomkins, Ministry of Defence
Sara Abbonizio, Women & Equality Unit

Research Programme

We sponsor and fund an ongoing research programme to support diversity within the industry. To date this has included the following:

Women in the IT industry: Phase 2 Research How to Retain Women in the IT Industry (July 2005)
Women in the IT industry: Phase 1 Research Towards a Business Case for Diversity (January 2005)
Achieving Best Practice in Your Business: Maximising Potential Through Work-Life Balance. Case Studies from the IT, Electronics and Communications Industries (July 2004)
Flexible working in the IT industry: Long-hours culture and work-life balance in the margins? (March 2004

For more information contact:

Kate Whitehead
Programme Executive
T 020 7331 2005
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