We’re seeing how the cost of childcare is continuing to soar taking a significant chunk out of women’s salaries. According to research from Aviva, 32,000 British working mothers have left their jobs in the past year due to soaring childcare costs and disappearing tax benefits. Read more
Do you ever feel as if the money you are making is going straight out of the door of your business? In a business culture where we have become time poor, saving money often becomes a low priority without us even realising it. In an emerging age of austerity a wealth of money saving options are emerging. The question is whether you as a business are taking every opportunity of saving money? Read more
A year on from the Equality Act coming into force isn’t it a little ironic that the recent headlines have focused on the Prime minister, David Cameron having to apologise to two female MP’s with regards to his conduct towards them, one of which was a fellow conservative MP? Read more
We recently launched the Icon Women Survery 2011, to provide you with the opportunity to have your say on how we shape future Icon Women activity. As part of the survey there was a competition to win an exclusive advertising prize and we’re delighted to announce that the winner (who was chosen at random from the entries sent in) is Lisa Empson, Allotts Chartered Accountants. Read more
The October First Friday networking event was kindly
sponsored by Crozier Jones Accountants, so what better way to get to know who they are and how they might be able to help you. Read more
The recent Randstad’s quarterly Workmonitor report of 400 UK workers has found that UK employees want their organisations to employee more female managers, to boost performance. Read more
Yesterday the Head of the World Bank Robert Zoellick in his opening statements called for a new focus for the world to sit up and take notice of women as a means of economic recovery. His two overarching themes were gender and jobs. His challenge focused on how economic stability can be achieved if half of the world’s population is still operating at a disadvantage. Access to finance, education, clean water and sanitation were all cited as key actions to support women Read more
It seems in business that there are natural cycles of networking activity over the course of the year. September and October is most definitely one of the high networking points in the business calendar. If you’re stuck for something different or looking to extend your networking activity to gain new business locally, where do you find yourself going? Read more
