Women in telecoms
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Marta Moreton, ICT specialist at TSF, speaks on their work with marginalised groups in the field.
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Numeracle, a provider of verified identity and entity identity management for communications, has named Mary Clark as its new chief operating officer (COO).
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The Change Partners’ diversity and inclusion specialist Billie Dhadda shares her thoughts on the barriers women still face in the workplace and how to overcome them.
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Vicky Wills, CTO at Exclaimer calls on STEM leaders to increase diversity and include more women and people of underrepresented backgrounds
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Capacity explores the role of AI in the world of women in cybersecurity, will it break down barriers?
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While professional skills can be acquired through formal education, soft skills such collaboration and communication are more difficult to teach.
Forthcoming events
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From having tricky conversations with your team to delivering keynotes, these tips from CEO, Mimi Nicklin will sharpen up your skills to master public speaking.
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Melanie Hayes, chief people officer at Nash Squared reveals the most common diversity and inclusion downfalls.
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Capacity Media has unveiled a brand-new initiative – the emPOWERED network
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Best-selling author of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Criado-Perez is to give the keynote address at Capacity Europe in London, and to speak at the launch of Capacity's own emPOWERED Network for women.
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Hilary Stephenson, managing director at Nexer Digital, says we must defend the growing criticism of diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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While telcos and tech companies continue to tackle the problem, Capacity asks whether we are casting our nets wide enough when it comes to telecoms talent. Kate O’Flaherty investigates.
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An industry veteran and one of the few female CEOs in telecoms, Ineke Botter has held integral roles in the build-out of Europe’s mobile ecosystem – a story which she tells in her new book, Your Phone, My Life.
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For International Women’s Day 2023, Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at how the top companies in our industry are doing. Better, but still not good enough. Women need role models
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Verizon Partner Solutions has sought to blaze a trail at the forefront of industry initiatives to drive diversity, while promoting outreach and volunteering. VPS's Jennifer Parkhill, Saida Ruscitto and Lorraine Nieto talk about the latest steps in this journey and their roles at the company.
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There is an “alarming” lack of diversity among senior technology personnel according to The Tech Talent Charter’s (TTC) latest Diversity in Tech report.
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Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, CEO of Orange Business Services (OBS), has posted a picture showing that she works alongside five senior women.
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The telecoms industry in the UK is not as diverse as it likes to think it is, a new report has told the UK government.
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Stephanie Lynch-Habib, formerly of Colt, the GSMA and InterCloud, is to be president of euNetworks.
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Amanda Brock, chief executive of OpenUK, says minority groups shoulder most of the work to achieve diversity in open source
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Tami Erwin, CEO of Verizon Business, is to leave the group at the end of the year, she has announced.
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Prelini Udayan-Chiechi, SVP global field demand and regional marketing at Zendesk, describes how the software-as-a-service company goes beyond mere diversity
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Capacity is now accepting entries for its annual 20 Women to Watch power list!
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Young women aspiring to a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are able to access a new scholarship, courtesy of Telesat.
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The Fiber Broadband Association (FBA) has launched the Women in Fiber Committee to advance the role of women in the fibre broadband industry.
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Mary Clark, former chief marketing officer of Syniverse and then Synchronoss, has been appointed CMO of Brivo, a cloud-based building technology company.
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More than 12 global tech companies and organisations have agreed to collaborate to increase diversity and equality in the technology industry, as part of the #ChangeTheFace Alliance.
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In a survey of top companies in our industry, Alan Burkitt-Gray finds only one – Colt – with a majority of women in the management team. Some are all men
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Capacity is now accepting submission for the 20 Women to Watch 2021 index.
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Globe has appointed Issa Guevarra-Cabreira as its new chief commercial officer (CCO), the first woman to hold this role in the company’s history.
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Verizon confirms the launch of Verizon Women’s CoLab, a new initiative to support women as the current Covid-19 pandemic has women leaving the workforce at unprecedented rates.
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According to a BCG study from 2020, only 15% of data scientists are women.
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Too often the conversation around gender parity, centres on the notion of equality, i.e. the state of being equal, or in this context the notion that all people are treated the same. But are there instances where people need to be treated different in order to make things equal – e.g. equity.
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This International Women’s Day it’s time to force change and use the pandemic as a catalyst for thisI like the hashtag for this year’s International Women’s Day, #ChooseToChallenge because words are great but actions speak louder. If we want more diversity, we need to force the issue and back up our old arguments with fresh activity and hard evidence that shows our progress.
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Gender diversity in tech will consistently fall short of our goals unless men do (more than) their share. Industry luminary Dan Pitt, knows what they need to do.
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Since the onset of COVID-19, people’s working lives have changed dramatically. Most industries have seen a massive shift in working practices, with businesses across the globe having to adapt to the ‘new normal’ of employees working from home (WFH).
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With the growth in the engineering sector in the last few years, the requirement of additional workers has led to an increasingly diverse workforce especially with the inclusion of women.
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Less than a month away from the 2020 Global Women in Telco & Tech Awards and Summit, Capacity's Natalie Bannerman takes a closer look at the significance behind this growing project and why it's so important for our industry. Hear from some prominent female CEOs and members of the GWTT team on why they choose to support the initiative, and the plans for its expansion.
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Conversations around gender diversity in telecoms can only occur if we get more women applying and through the door. Natalie Bannerman examines how we do it and why it wasn’t working before.
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The thirteen winners of the 2020 Global Women in Telco & Tech Awards have been named.
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“If a data center doesn’t prescribe to Murphy’s Law – that is operating under the assumption that anything can go wrong will go wrong- you shouldn’t be entrusting them with the security of your data.”
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A woman’s perspective on staying the course for success.