The company’s Canadian vice-president of developer and platform evangelism responds directly to reader feedback on career issues with editor-in-chief Shane Schick.
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Are we there yet, ladies of the IT industry? Uh, no
(20 Jun 2008)
It seems there is wide acknowledgement of the lack of diversity in technology and its negative impact — especially in the fields of computer science and computer engineering. The greater concern is complacency...
Executives from Microsoft, Bell Canada, CATA and others meet at a national forum to talk about how they approach problems compared to their male counterparts. Plus: Can tech jobs be sexy?...
Nearly 40 per cent of gamers in North America are women, and in Asia 69 to 70 per cent of handheld gamers are women. The Anita Borg Institute's Telle Whitney sees a trend emerging...
Executives from Microsoft, IBM, CIPS and York University discuss strategies to attract more female recruits, family-friendly work environments and the challenges for internationally educated professionals...
Businesses can attract and retain IT staff by endorsing flexible working conditions and facilitating a variety of work-life balances, female IT managers say...
Growing gender gap in IT jobs requiring on-call staff
(20 Apr 2007)
King, who attended this week's Storage Networking World conference, co-sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, is one example of what some attendees said could become a major problem for organizations -- the alarming number of women who are currently abandoning IT jobs like storage administration that require workers to be on-call at virtually all hours. ...
Businesses and public entities today face increasing pressure to develop policies that are both good for the planet and good for business. A framework developed by IBM offers businesses and other organizations a
comprehensive approach to energy and environmental issues. The framework helps identify and prioritize environmental efforts by breaking down problems and opportunities into seven distinct business areas, which can then be segmented into manageable projects.
