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	“... at the current rate, it could take 40 years for women to reach parity with men as corporate officers – executives appointed or elected by the board” Financial Times, 2006 "I really liked the research and literature that they produced. I think it is a really good, very good resource and definitely something that I share with people..." Partner organisation participating in the Equalitec Diversity Forum
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Portia would like to give its thanks to all its partners and supporting organisations with whom it has worked with to achieve broad and meaningful impact.

Athena ATSCo BBC News Interactive BP British Computer Society British Library Cambridge e-Science Centre Chameleon Net Citigroup Connect Internet Solutions Daphne Jackson Trust Deloitte Dept of Computing, Imperial E2v EEF Enterprise Insight ESPRC Everywoman Financial Times Fujitsu Services GCHQ GWIIN Gnosis Google Guardian News and Media Harvey Nash Hewlett Packard IBM Institute of Physics The IET Intellect IPA IT Synergy Kaspersky Labs Kodak LB of Barking and Dagenham LB of Hackney LB of Hillingdon LB of Hounslow	Lehman Brothers make YOUR mark Maven Training McGregor-Boyall Metropolitan Police Microsoft NHS Oracle P31 Consulting Pfizer Prospect Queen Mary & Westfield College REC Richard Rogers Partnership Roehampton University Royal Academy of Engineering Seren Partners SkillsFair S-Net.co.uk ltd Sony Sopra Newell and Budge Sun Microsystems Symantec TATE ThoughtWorks UK Ceed UK Resource Centre for Women in SET Unilever University of Bath University of Cambridge Judge Business School University of Central Lancashire University of Liverpool University of Portsmouth University of Southampton West Dunbartonshire Council West Lothian CHCP WiTEC Women in Technology


	Meeting of European science leaders on the gender dimension in science ‘How can European Science benefit from taking integrated action on gender’ 10 May 2010 14 leading science leaders from around Europe will meet in Paris to continue discussion on the gender dimension in science. The meeting follows on the deliberations that have taken place at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London on 25-26th March and in Berlin on 29-30th April. Among the issues they will address is the persistent concern of how to remove gender inequalities and biases in recruitment, retention, and advancement of men and women; how to ensure fairness and prevent gender bias in assessment of scientists’ work; how to make research process sensitive to factors related to gender and sex; and how to make sure that science knowledge-making and the science value system recognises when claims to knowledge are based on wrong assumptions about the nature and role of gender and sex. read more and Portia's other NEWS

	Kidzone Website launched by Hackney Pupils 28 April 2010 Eight pupils from East London's Olympic borough Hackney celebrated the launch of the website they had created for their age group with software development company, ThoughtWorks. The project was delivered by a partnership of Portia, Hackney Learning Trust SATH and ThoughtWorks. read more and Portia's other NEWS

	Portia promotes European Code of Best Practice for Women in ICT 01 September 2009 Portia is pleased to support the Information Society and Media Directorate General's Code of Best Practice for Women in ICT. Portia has invites its partners and supporters to sign up to the code, in recognition of their contribution to supporting women in ICT. read more and Portia's other NEWS

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