I once worked in an IT company that had a ‘Data Preparation’ department. Every single member of the team (I seem to recall there were about 15 of them) were women. I asked one of the bosses about this once, regarding the equality issues, and he said that only one man had ever applied for a job in that team. Well it was one or none anyway. These days, I sense that answer would not have been enough. Today, I suspect that he would have had to prove that any job adverts for roles in that team would have been ‘equally accessible’ to men and women, that special efforts had been made to ensure men had felt able to apply for the role. What is the equality world coming to?
Archive for January, 2007
On Job Requirements, Equal Opportunities and Positive Discrimination
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Outlook FaceId 3000 – 3999
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007I recently wrote about Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2003, and this post adds data to that post. This entry is a technical .Net / VS2005 / VSTO blog and will probably not be of interest unless you use these tools yourself.
Human Interaction and the Sugar UI
Saturday, January 6th, 2007Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office CommandBarButton FaceId Property
Thursday, January 4th, 2007I recently started experimenting with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2003. This entry is a technical .Net / VS2005 / VSTO blog and will probably not be of interest unless you use these tools yourself.
Outrageous Electricity Consumption
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
My electricity bills recently have been horrendous. My bills being high were not a surprise when I was running computers for a business; it was a business cost, and I had made a commercial decision to run them 24/7.