Women still face hurdles in high-tech careers: study
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Female scientists, engineers and product developers still face barriers in climbing the career ladder due to a lack of role models, mentors and access to networks, according to a new study.
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The suggestion by Harvard University's president that innate differences might explain why women lag in science and math could hurt efforts to recruit female scholars, a faculty committee said.
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While neither men nor women may be the more intelligent sex, their brains may take different paths to reach the same intellectual level, according to one team of researchers.
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Experts say the talent shortage lies not in the number of tech-savvy workers but in the types of skills and experience they possess.
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A high IQ is a hindrance for women wanting to get married while it is an asset for men, according to a study by four British universities published in The Sunday Times newspaper.
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Women are embracing consumer electronics just as the technologies are reaching out to embrace them.
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Women of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Caribbean descent still face poor work prospects despite forging ahead in schools, a report finds.
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Recent experiments show how hard it can be to balance academic success and socioeconomic and racial diversity.
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Despite four decades of focus on equal workplace rights, gender discrimination concerns persist.
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but the risks may outweigh the benefits for older women, research has found. According to one of the largest studies
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The IT job market remains tight in the U.S., with more workers than available jobs in many parts of the country, according to the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
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Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago have confirmed what many high-tech workers have long suspected: The job market for technology workers remains bleak, years after the US recession officially ended in late 2001.
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Businesswomen make up a growing percentage of the global workforce but are still under-represented in the boardroom.  With just 117 women among the 1,130 directors of the FTSE 100 companies, according to a recent survey (January 2007) by Cranfield University, it would need almost a fourfold increase in female representation to achieve gender equality.
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Most French women still find themselves less than equal in politics and the corporate world.
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It's not an easy road, even for high-powered IT leaders. Here are the top issues that vex them daily.
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By Marcia Heroux Pounds, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 9--Women are still trying to break the glass ceiling in Florida.   The second annual survey of Florida's women directors and executive officers is in, and the news is not much to cheer about.
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Gender bias &#151; not any biological difference between the sexes &#151; stifles the careers of female scientists at the nation's universities, says a new report that calls for wide-ranging steps to level the playing field.