Our stories
From challenging preconceptions of Muslim women to breaking down barriers and stereotypes in mathematics, our staff are helping to build an equal world and progressing gender equality.
I am progressing gender equality in my role by being an example to those I mentor and supervise as a part of my job.
As a pure mathematician, working in an area called algebraic topology, women are under-represented and I am keen to break down barriers and promote gender equality in my field.
Gender equality is making the histories of Muslim women known so that they may challenge preconceptions in the present and open possibilities for the future
I aim use my position to encourage other women of varying backgrounds and ages to choose careers in IT.
At the University I've mentored sixth form students from Longley Park College and set up an internship programme for mainly female students from a deprived area of the city to have experience working in a large IT team and I am a founder member of Sheffield Women in IT.
According to figures from recruiters Harvey Nash, women make up 12 per cent of senior IT directors or chief information officers and in HE the figure is closer to four per cent.
Bella Abrams
Director of Information Technology
In Security Services we were significantly underrepresented by females and had justified cause for a genuine operational requirement to bring more females into the service.
We created a campaign to attract female applicants and completely rethought our advertising process. We wanted our employees to reflect the rich diversity of our community, and we soon found ourselves with a broader applicant pool, with applicants best fitting the job description, which enabled us to employ high-quality staff.
Having successfully run the campaign now on several occasions, we have addressed good gender balance by increasing our female staff by 120 per cent.
Lucy Brooke
Security Services
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Each for equal means not imposing boundaries or barriers - Dr Rachael Rothman