My name is Venus Tingzon and I’m a Senior Project Manager within DIO, a role I have been in since 2020, after joining DIO as a Project Support Officer in 2017. I joined the civil service in 2004, working as …
Hi. I’m Kate Sharman, Assistant Head of the UK Defence Training Estate. The theme this year for International Women’s Day was Break the Bias and focused on how women experience working in a more male dominated area. My mother was …
Today is an opportunity to come together to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It is a day to take stock of how far our society has progressed when it comes to gender equality, but to …
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The first national day for women was held in New York on 28th February 1909 and saw 15,000 women march together to demand better working hours, better pay and the right to vote. Just over 99 years later a lot …