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	<description>&#039;Computing is too important to be left to men&#039; -- Karen Spärck Jones</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.&#8221; &#8211; Sally Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a really nice article on BBC News, continuing the story of four women in space.  The focus is on Naoko Yamazaki, the second Japanese woman to go into space.  Her story embodies what the fight for equality is about for me, because she isn't a woman that 'has it all'.  She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.&#8221; &#8211; Charlotte Whitton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March was women's month in many ways, from it being Women's History Month in the U.S. to International Women's Day on March 8th, but now that it's all over, it's nice to see that we're not out of the news just yet.  Here's quick round-up of the latest:

Asian women set to make Westminster breakthrough: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skirtsandladders.com/?p=663</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The best way to shatter the glass ceiling, she said, is first to shatter the myth that you can have it all.&#8221; &#8211; Mrs Moneypenny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday is International Women's Day 2010.  I had expected one of the FT writers, a Mrs Moneypenny, to write about it - because she touches on a range of interesting issues around women in business - but instead she chose to ignore it and focused on something else.
It's an unheard, unsaid, shameful truth: women [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skirtsandladders.com/?p=660</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.&#8221; &#8211; Douglas Adams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, the Royal Institution made it's director, Susan Greenfield, redundant.  The decision itself was far more melodramatic than that statement, from the information garnered by the media.  It's said that staff were given thirty minutes notice to attend a meeting in which it was announced by the chief executive, that she was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skirtsandladders.com/?p=655</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Basically, all my life I&#8217;d been told you can&#8217;t do that because you&#8217;re female. So I guess I just didn&#8217;t pay any attention.&#8221; &#8211; Shannon Lucid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost every male-dominated scientific discipline I know has a 'Women in...' group to go along with it.  Women in Aerospace was established over 20 years ago, unsurprisingly in the US, to support the American women who were fortunate enough to take advantage of the industry spawned by NASA.
Women in Aerospace Europe was only founded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Diversity is not about how we differ.  Diversity is about embracing one another&#8217;s uniqueness.&#8221;  Ola Joseph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diversity in investment banks is a contentious issue.  I tend to focus my attention on graduate recruitment, because it's the easiest way to see what the demographics of the future workforce will be like.
I have a friend that joined the technology graduate scheme of one large American bank a couple years ago, and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Problem is Really in the Environment&#8221; &#8211; Anthony Greenwald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started a new job a couple months ago and had to undergo diversity training, as is the norm for all new joiners.  While the session was fairly typical, the discussion on bias versus prejudice led to our instructor telling us to Google the Harvard Implicit Association Test to see what our individual bias [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skirtsandladders.com/?p=614</link>
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		<title>&#8220;DailyCandy’s subscriber list can be taken as the Holy Grail of e-commerce&#8221; &#8211; NY Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently introduced to DailyCandy, when a friend forwarded me an email with the subject Lower Eastside Story.  It informed us that the Lower East Liquor Bar and Bistro had opened in Canary Wharf, where we happen to work.  The review was short, frivolous, mouth-watering and even included a 50% off offer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skirtsandladders.com/?p=604</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Not everyone can be Gandhi, but each of us has the power to make sure our own lives count&#8221; &#8211; Jeff Skoll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most early career professionals in the city, I've contemplated whether to do an MBA.  My friends and I have a running joke about how the only people that get into Harvard are those that have run off and built a village in Venezuela.  Despite having not done that, I decided to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skirtsandladders.com/?p=598</link>
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		<title>&#8220;We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.&#8221; &#8211; Alan Turing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another list.  Today it's the third Financial News 100 list of the most influencial women in finance.  I was pleased to see the names of three women from my current firm, and another three from my former employer.  That's good representation, even if the soundbites for all are a bit [...]]]></description>
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