Coaching and mentoring, aren’t they the same thing?
By WISE Young Professional Board Member, Nadia Earl No, they are not the same. They are in fact quite different. Read on to understand how each of these might help […]
Ad astra per diversitatem
By WISE Young Professionals’ Board member, Abigail Seager, BBC, Senior Systems Engineer with writing and editorial help from Vicky Jewell. What do you want to be when you grow up? […]
A tale of hope
Gisela Rossi from the WISE Young Professionals’ Board discusses her volunteer role as a coding mentor to children and interviews Isabella, one of the girls she mentors. In 2016 I started to […]
Treat your gender pay gap report as an opportunity
The gender pay gap regulations have brought “unparalleled transparency”, Minister for Women Victoria Adams told a packed room at the Royal Academy of Engineering’s annual diversity and inclusion conference on […]
Engineering gender pay gap in UK less than feared but still requires action
Research published today by the Royal Academy of Engineering indicates that the gender pay gap is smaller in the engineering profession than the UK employee average. The mean (10.8%) […]
A new perspective on multitasking – Dads working from home
Written and compiled by WISE Young Professional Board Member, Alexandra Lawson. If we rewind back to March, a large proportion of us started a new journey of working from home and […]
Growing innovation through Gender Diversity
That we live in uncertain times is a cliché, but that does not make it any less true. Climate change and associated issues such as extreme weather, food, water, energy […]
Development and inspiration from 15 minutes to 24 hours
There has never been a more important time to ensure that you are looking after yourself. We know we should be reducing stress by taking deep breaths, taking more exercise […]
Regional disparity of women in Core-STEM roles is cause for concern
The statistics quoted in this piece may differ from others previously quoted by WISE since they reflect the figures from the full calendar years of 2019 and 2020. Regional variations […]
Updated Workforce Statistics to Dec 2021
The latest government workforce data as of end of Dec 2021 shows a positive increase in the percentage of women making up the Core-STEM workforce at 26.6% of the total, […]