Gender Equality
How to tackle the gender pay gap
Greater transparency over earnings is just one way of tackling the multiple causes of the gender pay gap. read more
Employers
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Gender Equality
Inclusion 2021: the importance of employee voice
Employee resource groups can give many groups a voice at the table, but they need to be... read more
Gender Equality
Number of women directors on boards continues to flatline
A new study by Cranfield School of Management finds that little has moved when it comes to... read more
Recruitment
Planning ahead for seasonal recruitment: the benefits and challenges
Due to Covid-19 and skills shortages, businesses are left with many unfilled positions,... read more
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Work Life Balance
Why employers need to talk about mental health
Benedetta Doro reports on why it is good for both employers and employees to tackle mental health in the workplace on an ongoing basis.... read more
Managing Staff
Advice for employers on easing of restrictions
Kate Palmer from Peninsula UK advises on what employers should do about the easing of restrictions in England after 19th July. read more
Gender Equality
workingmums.co.uk launches Best Practice Report 2021
workingmums.co.uk has launched its Best Practice Report which shares what the winners of its Top Employer Awards have done to address the challenges... read more
Employer Case Studies
Flexible Working Practices
Changemakers support move to smarter working
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport spoke recently about how they moved to a smarter working culture and how trained champions within... read more
Childcare
Going the extra mile for working parents
Digital transformation multinational Atos talks about its award-winning virtual summer camp and its package of support for women. read more
Managing Staff
Supporting working carers
For Carers Week 2021 workingmums.co.uk is highlighting how IBM supports working carers like Vivien Kwok Bastow. read more
Flexible Working Practices
Working part time in a senior role
Annie Turnbull talks about her senior part-time role at Teach First. read more
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Dads
Covid, grief and Christmas: taking it one step at a time
Covid has had a big impact on parents' mental health, particularly those who have been grieving, and it's not over yet. How do we get through the next... read more
Flexible Working Practices
A marriage of equals
Jane Clark-Hutchison and Alison Nicolson from Scottish Widows talk about their senior job share and why it's like a work marriage. read more
Flexible Working Practices
Work becoming more secure for most
A new CIPD report suggests that work has become more secure over the last decade, despite the pandemic. read more
Flexible Working Practices
Report charts economic gains of flexible working
A new report calculates that flexible working contributes £37 billion to the UK economy. read more
Gender Equality
‘Slight fall in gender pay gap, but Covid could mask reality’
A PwC analysis shows a slight fall in the gender pay gap, but suggests that Covid job losses and furlough could have affected the figures. read more
Recruitment
The ongoing danger of skills shortages
Interest in events on retention and recruitment are up as studies show a need to think creatively and engage with workers more amid skills shortages. read more
Recruitment
Job interviews: preparation, uncomfortable questions and Covid-19
Workingmums.co.uk talks to an interview coach to explore uncomfortable questions, how to get ready for a job interview and Covid-19’s impact. ... read more
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Gender Equality
The gender pay gap in construction
workingmums.co.uk looks at what this year's figures say about the gender pay gap in the construction sector. read more
Diversity
Wellbeing: the next frontier for DEI
A conference heard yesterday that wellbeing is the next frontier for diversity and inclusion and should be embedded in all parts of an organisation's... read more
Gender Equality
Women in the workplace: leadership and burnout
The 2021 Women in the Workplace report shows that women are feeling more burnt out than men and that the disproportionate amount of emotional and DEI... read more
Recruitment
Report calls for Government action on skills shortages
A new report from the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development calls for immediate short-term action to stem acute skills shortages in... read more
Gender Equality
Stop asking people for their pay history
Why your pay history shouldn't matter when you go for a job interview... read more
Gender Equality
‘Employers should stop asking about salary history during recruitment’
The Fawcett Society is to ask employers to stop asking people for their salary history during the recruitment process and using this to determine... read more
Recruitment
City sees increase in jobs and jobseekers
City job vacancies are growing while the number of jobseekers is twice the rate of vacancies, according to the latest figures from Morgan McKinley. read more
Latest Whitepapers
Gender Equality
workingmums.co.uk launches white paper on women and work during Covid
workingmums.co.uk has launched a white paper based on its roundtable on women and work during Covid held in January. read more
Managing Staff
Creating empathetic workplaces
workingmums.co.uk hosted two recent workshops on how empathy can be used to create more engaged, productive workforces. read more
Diversity
workingmums.co.uk publishes white paper on the impact of Covid on women at work
workingmums.co.uk has published a white paper based on a recent virtual roundtable with leading employers focused on the impact of Covid-19 on women... read more
Flexible Working Practices
workingmums.co.uk publishes white paper on mental well being after Covid
workingmums.co.uk has published a white paper on its recent roundtable with employers on the well being challenges of working during a pandemic and... read more
Diversity
Diversity and inclusion post-Covid-19
workingmums.co.uk held a virtual roundtable on diversity and inclusion post-Covid-19 in July with a range of different employers. The below is our... read more
Flexible Working Practices
workingmums.co.uk white paper on agile working in an age of coronavirus
workingmums.co.uk held a virtual roundtable with employers from across industry in June to discuss agile working at a time of coronavirus and how it... read more
