I have mixed feelings about being a woman in 2018. There were times that I felt pretty downtrodden, like no matter how hard women work, they always seem to draw the short straw. Even though there have been some tough moments this year, there were some pretty incredible ones as well. So, to celebrate…
This is a time of year where people often look back and contemplate their achievements and so I have been spending a fair amount of time, whilst drinking tea and eating mince pies, thinking about how much the Ivanti Women in Tech team have accomplished this year. I have had the best time working on…
Sarah Lewis, Director of Field Marketing at Ivanti, was recently named as one of the Top 25 Women in Tech by PCR Magazine. This is part of PCR Magazine’s Women in Tech special issue, which sought to spotlight women of all levels in their career who are shaking up the industry. When asked what this …
Late October, I led the participation of Ivanti at the itSMF Vision18 congress in Madrid, which included a booth and a speaking slot with customer testimony. The theme was "Innovación, Tecnología, y Personas para la Era Digital" (Innovation, Technology, and People for the Digital Age). This year, i…
I once watched a survival show on TV where the mountain man host had to spend the cold winter night in the woods. I watched as he showed viewers how to survive eight hours in the bitter cold. I struggled to see what was so special about his quest, considering any woman in the workplace faces a simil…
It has been clear for many years now that a more diverse group will make better decisions. There will be less bias—or, at least, the individuals’ personal biases will cancel each other out, rather than reinforce each other—and more perspectives will be brought to bear, improving the information avai…
In Ivanti’s recent survey about Women in Tech, participating women shared what they thought is the most important skill to have in order to work in a technology-related field: A desire to learn An enthusiasm for understanding how things work An ability to communicate effectively about complex s…
This is a very important question and was number six in our recent Women in Technology survey. I decided to try and get some different opinions on this question and so have collated some thoughts and comments below. Pay women the same as men 73% of respondents chose this answer This is a topic w…
The results from our survey were very interesting. When asked how they got into the field of technology, 46% of the women surveyed said that they "just fell into it". Some people at Ivanti were shocked at this, but I’m not that surprised. How many schoolchildren really know what they want to be whe…
