There has been quite a bit of press about women in the workplace. One article focussed on Natasha Kaplinsky announcing that she was pregnant. People were commenting that she had held the news back for fear that it might affect her chances of getting a new contract. Maybe she had a reason bearing in mind the indication from the Equality and Human Rights Commission that 70% of recruitment agencies had been asked by their clients to avoid hiring women who were pregnant.
Another article reported that 30,000 women were sacked every year for having babies.
Then there was Sir Alan Sugar being reported as saying that ‘girls (sic) were nothing but trouble’.
But it’s not all bad news! First the Recruiters Forum reported that ‘a baby need not derail your career’ and then saying that employers were wooing women back to work by offering them flexible working.
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Submitted by karamat on Fri, 2008-05-09 18:04.