Working Families Best Practice Awards winners announced

?The winners of the Working Families Best Practice Awards have been announced at an event in London

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Being an influential woman

Identifying your influencing approach, reputation, resilience and career planning are all key to becoming influential as a woman

Gender pay gap less important than other diversity metrics

Progress in getting women into leadership roles can actually worsen a firm's pay gap in the short term

Mayor of London launches women in leadership initiative

The scheme takes inspiration from private sector initiatives to appoint staff champions as a more effective route than mentoring

Gender pay gaps are as much about low pay as high pay

As NHS Trusts publish their pay gaps it is clear that an equal pay system doesn't mean pay parity

Encouraging female staff to speak up with confidence

Just 8% of women find it easy to make their voice heard at work, and women are 68% more likely than men to say they never feel comfortable expressing themselves

Poor gender diversity “single most critical risk to business”

A panel at a Hilton event discussed the need for flexible working and acknowledging unconscious bias

80% of women believe gender discrimination exists at work

On International Women's Day and as the pay gap deadline looms, research highlights levels of gender discrimination and preventative steps

Three-quarters of women lack confidence in the workplace

Training and networking can help to improve women's self-confidence

Five minutes with… Diana Niu

Diana Niu is senior vice president of HR at Volvo Construction Equipment

Businesses pledge to boost women in tech

?PwC has joined forces with 18 organisations to tackle a lack of women in UK technology roles

Are appointments doomed to bias?

Lack of self-reflection and denial of even the possibility of bias make it even more likely to occur