Women Leaders
Volunteer and enrich your own life too
Volunteering can bring enormous benefits from boosting confidence to learning new skills.... read more
Employers
Employers can access all of our research, best practice reports and up-to-date news and features about flexible working and diversity issues in this archive – including gender pay gap information and advice, tips for managing flexible staff, how to recruit more women into your business and case studies of companies who are doing great things in this area.
Flexible Working Practices
Number of part-timers swell as hours are slashed
Official figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that over the last... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Number of part-time workers soars to one million
Figures from think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) show record... read more
Gender Equality
Women on the rails
If you ask anyone for a description of a typical train driver, they are probably still... read more
Career Advice
New fathers to get dad’s guide
New dads are to receive a ‘dad’s guide’ to pregnancy, birth and... read more
Gender Equality
Pink protests
When Pink Stinks launched its campaign to highlight claims that the Early Learning Centre,... read more
Dads
What makes a great Christmas toy?
The papers are full of this year’s favourite Xmas toys, but even if your kids want... read more
Diversity
75% of working parents support compulsory gender pay audit
Three quarters of working parents think gender pay audits should be compulsory, according... read more
Managing Staff
Changing shifts: ask the expert
I am working part time. For the past 2 years that I have worked there I have done... read more
Managing Staff
Is presenteeism damaging business?
Are staff feeling more obliged than ever to struggle into work in the recession? A new... read more
Women Leaders
Inside the teen brain: Educational resources business tackling the causes of teenage violence
Sue Scott-Horne knows how teenagers tick and has put her years of experience as a... read more
Women Leaders
On the road to somewhere: How women can succeed in male-dominated fields.
Suzanne Doyle-Morris has written a book on how women can succeed in male-dominated fields.... read more
Women Leaders
How to set up a mummy blog which ranks in the top 100
What makes for a successful mummy blog? Sally Whittle should know. She has set up a... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Volunteering: things to consider
Volunteering is a good route back into work, a way of keeping your hand in and allows you... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Engineering flexible success
Halcrow is unusual in the construction and engineering industry. Not only does it have an... read more
Women Leaders
Using Women’s Wisdom
Women in business are high profile after the final of The Apprentice, but there are many... read more
Managing Staff
Top family friendly employers named
Working Families has listed its top 20 family friendly employers over the last 30 years to... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Working from home can incentivise staff
Employees are benefiting from working more from home in the financial crisis, says BT.... read more
Gender Equality
The Equality Bill: the view from small businesses
Solicitor Jasmine van Loggerenberg has argued in favour of the Equality Bill, but the... read more
Managing Staff
Shift work and breaks: ask the expert
I work from home, online, as a bingo chat room host. We work 6 days per week, on average... read more
Managing Staff
Changing long shifts during pregnancy: ask the expert
I am 13 weeks pregnant and work in retail, where we are required to work shifts from as... read more
