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Entries from July 2007

More women leaders - please!

July 5th, 2007 · No Comments

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Beryl and I were a little late for the start of the Business Leadership for Women in� Technology Forum (see details of speakers), so we missed Val Singh’s talk but we did hear an excellent talk from Avivah Wittenberg-Cox from Diafora.� Avivah argued strongly for the argument for businesses to adapt to benefit from women [...]

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Social Networks and their analysis

July 4th, 2007 · No Comments

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After the Gender Work and Organisation Conference, on June 30th 2007, we held an inaugural research workshop, KAN (Know and Network): Women in IT Research into Social Networking, where Professor Mike Thelwall spoke about Social Network Analysis.� Mike gave us a fascinating talk (see slides), followed by a discussion where we explored how social network [...]

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Gender Work and Organisation Conference

July 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

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We had a good time at the GWO COnference in Keele last week.I learned such a lot about a broad range of gender issues and theories, and heard some wonderful speakers.
As well as the conference, GWO has a journal. This edition could be very relevant to Women in IT.
Special Issue of Gender, Work & Organization [...]

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