Part-time work now more empowering for women

?The UK must recognise the skills and talents that young people working part time can bring to the workforce, according to co-founder and COO of JOB TODAY Polina Montano

Approaching business aims with a D&I lens

Treating wider business objectives as D&I issues can strongly support success in these aims, according to Skanska's global diversity manager

Law firm recruits women's advancement director

Law firm Dentons has announced the appointment of a women's advancement director

BEIS calls for widening of gender pay reporting requirements

Report recommends a wider net of companies to publish and for action plans and narrative reports to be made compulsory

World's first chief feminism officer job advertised

?A tech company is recruiting an interim chief feminism officer, after realising it was performing poorly on gender equality

FTSE 350 falling behind on women on boards target

While FTSE 100 companies are on track to meet the 2020 target there are still too many companies with no women on their boards

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