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Women Like Us on HR Magazine Online
"The full story behind the increase in part-time workers" - opinion piece by our Head of Recruitment, Resa Galgut
HR Magazine Online, 10.01.11 (187K)
Helping mothers in Hackney get back to work
10 June 2008 - Mums living in Hackney who want to go back to work after having a family will now have access to free career coaching from Women Like Us. Two mums from Hackney talk about their experiences getting back to work that is locally based and flexible to fit around their family lives.
Helping mothers in Hackney get back to work (103K)
North London mums consider a firefighting future
London Fire Brigade along with Women Like Us held a drop-in event at Campsbourne School in Haringey, to raise awareness of the career option of becoming a female fire fighter.
North London Mums consider a firefighting future (36K)
Women Like Us welcomes promise of improved flexible working
8 November 2007 - Karen Mattison, Director of Women Like Us, welcomes the Prime Minister’s commitment to the work-life balance agenda in the Queen’s Speech as a significant step forward to tackling the issues facing many women trying to balance work with family life, but warns that progress will only occur if we offer additional support to employers.
Women Like Us welcomes promise of improved flexible working (29K)
Women Like Us selected as example of best practice in Europe
24 July 2007 - Award-winning social enterprise, Women Like Us, has been selected by the London Councils European Service as an example of best practice for its initiative in promoting equal opportunities at a local level.
Women Like Us selected as example of best practice in Europe (149K)
Women Like Us shortlisted for small business employer of the year
10 January 2007 - Women Like Us have won through to the finals of the Working Families and Institute of Directors Small Business Award for their innovation and creative thinking in work-life balance.
Finalists for small business of the year, 10 January 2007 (147K)
Women want to work at north London’s Whittington Hospital
19 October 2006 - The Whittington Hospital in Highgate, North London announced their recent appointment to the Times’ Top 50 Places Where Women Want to Work, as part of their recently initiated approach with Women Like Us to recruit locally-based women candidates to work at the hospital on a part-time or flexible basis.
Women want to work at the Whittington, 19 October 2006 (145K)
Shortlisted for women of the future award
17 October 2006 - Women Like Us is proud to announce that it has been shortlisted for the ‘Women of the Future – Corporate Award’, which is sponsored by Shell and supported by Cherie Booth QC and Ruth Kelly, Minister for Women.
Shortlisted for Women of the Future award, 17 October 2006 (148K)