I normally come away from women’s career events feeling empowered and inspired, and Monday’s event by Stylist Magazine was no different. The Stylist Life Lessons panel discussion at Ham Yard Hotel in Soho featured...
This was my first time at Rails Girls London and it was exciting to be introduced to this huge community of enthusiasts and developers who shared one common goal: to get stuck into Ruby on Rails and meet other like-minded...
You know what’s so hot right now? Virtual reality. It’s London Technology Week, and one of the very first events in this exciting programme was about VR – an area of tech currently experiencing high growth and...
Whatever your views on innate gender differences, advances in modern neuroscience mean it is getting more and more difficult to argue that men and women have different brains. This worldview lost fashion somewhere around the...
You might not think that learning to code may be much of an achievement, but I think differently. I joined a Code First: Girls front end web design course for my professional development, but I ended up learning so much more than...
I went to a screening at the Guardian offices in King’s Cross of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, a crowd-funded film released in 2015, directed by Robin Hauser Reynolds. This film laments the state of female software engineers...
We often speak about getting more women involved in tech, which is a noble aim, but I think it requires a little more fleshing out. Despite the many tech-focused events and classes I’ve attended and articles I’ve read, I...
Image: Mums In Technology coding class Here is a current list of current FREE UK coding groups that help women learn to code, ordered alphabetically and by region. You now have no reason not to pursue your coding dreams! As you...
Women have a reputation for not being assertive enough, and is apparently why we earn less than men. Whether or not this reasoning is sound, I think there’s a difference between being too shy and not wanting to impose on...
When you’re born, the social conditioning begins straight away. Whether they mean to or not, the people around you are influenced by the cultural norms of the society they know, and treat children accordingly. Girls are given...
Catherine is a freelance writer based in Manchester. She specializes in B2B SaaS content writing and copywriting. She writes B2B SaaS blog posts that help generate more traffic and get more leads.