International Women's Day: The equality debate - how far have we come?
If you didn’t know already, today is International Women’s Day – a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday. However seeing as though it’s business as usual for us in the UK, it seemed apt to instead mark the occasion by discussing women from a HR perspective.
Gender diversity, equality, discrimination, quotas and so on – the topic of women in the workplace is one that’s never far from the news. But amongst all the noise, how much progress have we really made when it comes to women in the workplace, and specifically women in male dominated industries, like IT?
Seeing as though today is International Women’s Day Centenary, let’s go back 100 years. We have made massive advancements when it comes to gender equality. But what about the last 25 years? How much has really changed?
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