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- One Bad Mutha
- Happy Mothers' Day! Sunday, we celebrate the women who perform the utterly thankless task of raising a bunch of self-centered, loud, surly, snot-nosed rebellious little hellions, just like you and me. While there are many women who are paragons of maternal nuturing, films and books offer a darker vision of...
- Tags: Mother, Women, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Jerry Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-05-10
- Anger in the office: Its effect could depend on your gender
- I just finished reading about a study on anger in the workplace that made me angry. I hate it when that happens. Victoria Brescoll, a post-doctoral scholar at Yale University, has just published a research paper called "When Can Angry Women Get Ahead?" She conducted three experiments with...
- Tags: Women, Gender And Diversity, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- WIT Success Story - Morocco
- Bouzit Sanaa was one of over 450 women to apply for the Women in Technology scholarship program in Morocco in 2004. A Berber rights community organizer and university student in computer programming, Ms. Sanaa was one of 100 Moroccan applicants selected for the WIT scholarship, and is now completing the...
- Tags: Women, Ms., Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
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- MIP Fund Accounting Pro Strengthens the Mission of The Women's Fund
- Barb Devetski, Executive Director of The Women's Fund for Health Education and Research in Houston, Texas, started with the organization in 1983. The organization produced complicated financial statistics and needed an accounting software that would help the trustees and boards understand how their funds were raised and spent. MIP Fund...
- Tags: Accounting, Financial, Women, Board, Sage Software, Gender And Diversity, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance
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- IMAGE-X Enterprises Case Study: Tulare County, CA
- Domestic violence is one of the most serious public health and criminal justice issues facing women today. Thousands of women are injured, even killed, each year by an abusive spouse because help was not available. Batterers are able to control their victims with fear and threats, preventing many from seeking...
- Tags: Violence, Women, Computer Associates International Inc., Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
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- Networking Academy Experience Decisive in Job Success
- Figen Ehliz, the daughter of Turkish immigrants to Germany, has successfully entered a profession where women are dramatically under-represented. She is now part of an 8-person team supporting the RheinEnergie AG network in Cologne. One of only 15 women out of 300 students on her course at of the Niederrhein...
- Tags: Job, Germany, Women, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
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- Gender Issues in the Career Development of IT Professionals: A Global Perspective
- Each period of technological change carries with it high expectations of societal and organizational restructuring that will favour the disadvantaged. The same is true for the Information and Communication Technologies. The fast expansion of the IT labour market, the need for diverse talents, the shift in the demand from technical...
- Tags: Career Development, Women, Information Technology, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Strategy, Human Resources, Career, Management
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- "Wireless Home" Project Heralds Exciting Career Prospects for Women of Dubai
- In Dubai's booming economy, IT and networking skills are in demand. Cisco makes a conscious effort to help Middle Eastern women, as well as men, to build IT careers, for example by finding them internships. All the students of Cisco Networking Academy Program 2005 took part in the project, applying...
- Tags: Dubai, Women, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Human Resources, Career
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- Location Technology Puts Women's Spa on the Map and Gives Presentations a Visual Punch
- Eden Women's Spa will open its doors in early 2006 in Seattle, Washington. To select the optimal retail location, management had to determine what site would draw the most customers meeting their target demographic profile. The company knew that technology could help, but with no highly technical personnel on staff,...
- Tags: Women, Microsoft Corp., Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
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- Tech guru JC Dill shares her thoughts on the BlogHer conference and her experiences as a female IT professional
- The wide world of blogging has exploded over the past few years, and an increasing number of editorial and social networking sites are jumping on the blogging bandwagon. An example of one of these social networking sites is BlogHer.org, which aims to "create opportunities for women bloggers to pursue exposure,...
- Tags: Social Networking, TechRepublic Inc., Women, Conference, Gender And Diversity, Blogging, Human Resources, Internet
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- Central Lakes College Targets Women for IT Careers
- Ron Houle can see into the future. As the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Central Lakes College in Brainerd, Minnesota, he recognized even before Microsoft Windows 2000 was released that it would become the pervasive platform for business. "Industry is going to grab a hold of this and they are going...
- Tags: Women, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Workforce, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Gender And Diversity, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
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- Campaigning for the Empowerment of Women in IT in Zambia
- Barbara Munyati is one of Zambia's rare female success stories. As a lecturer in Computer Sciences at the University of Zambia, she is amongst the few women in her country who have a responsible job, and she is often approached by headhunters to work for rival organisations. Barbara understands the...
- Tags: Women, Information Technology, Empowerment, Cisco Systems Inc., Barbara Munyati, Barbara, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
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- Splice Girls: The New Girl Power?
- One of the newest additions to the community of Networking Academies is Wallington Girls School in Surrey, UK. With less than 30% of the IT industry workforce made up of women, the promotion of networking skills and IT amongst women is crucial. Consistently ranked in the top 70 state schools...
- Tags: Women, Network, U.K., Cisco Systems Inc., Gender And Diversity, Strategy, Networking, Human Resources, Management
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- DFID-Funded Project Helps Ghanaian Women Take Control of Health
- In Africa, malaria is the number one killer of children under five. In addition to being the primary carer for children, Ghanaian women often have to pay for treatment for themselves or their children. This can put an impossible strain on women and their families. So, the Department for International...
- Tags: Children, Women, Health Care, Gender And Diversity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Empowering Pakistani Women Through Sustainable Livelihoods: DFID and the Kashf Foundation
- The word 'Kashf' means 'miracle' in Urdu, and the Kashf Foundation addresses the need to improve the economic and social status of women in the rural/peri-urban areas around Lahore in Punjab Province. Although the Government of Pakistan GoP, has emphasised the importance of micro-finance and empowerment in the fight against...
- Tags: Women, Poverty, Empowerment, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
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- Engendering Canadian Trade Policy: A Case Study of Labour Mobility in Trade Agreements
- This study examines Canada's commitments under labour mobility agreements associated with the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Trade in Services from a gender equality perspective. First, a gender analysis framework is designed to examine the agreements; second, the content of the agreements and immigration data...
- Tags: Women, Mobility, Agreement, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Create!form Case Study: The Women's & Children's Hospital of Adelaide
- The Women's and Children's Hospital of Adelaide (W&CH), has a unique role in the healthcare system of South Australia. In addition to the challenge of managing this organization, being part of the public healthcare system requires the W&CH to adhere to national healthcare policies and procedures. The Corporate Services project...
- Tags: Hospital, Adelaide, Women, Health Care, Financial Management, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Printers, Gender And Diversity, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Hardware, Peripherals
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- Do Markets Favor Women's Human Capital More Than Planners Did?
- This study examine the extent to which markets pay women more for their human capital than the planners did and whether the change to market-based wages has affected women's and men's human capital equally. To address this question, data is used from the Czech Republic to estimate the returns to...
- Tags: Women, University Of Michigan, Gender And Diversity, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- 10+ dumb business decisions that can take a company down
- Hubris, big egos, poor foresight, and lack of humanity kill great companies -- small and large -- every year. We can learn from their misguided decisions, but we need to do it before more of our businesses fail and more of our country's leadership is lost forever. ...
- Tags: Talent, Women, Gender And Diversity, Sales Strategy, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Sales, John McKee
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Special Report for Women in IT: Marketing tech products
- I've talked about marketing tech products for women before, and the TechRepublic audience has given me feedback that, while pink and pretty are aesthetically pleasing, functionality is a must. I had the opportunity to catch up with Andy Marken of Marken Communications about this very topic, and...
- Tags: Marketing, Women, Information Technology, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
