Blogs on 'Gender'

Celebrated annually on March 8, International Women's Day marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. We spoke to members of Cambridge Assessment's Women in Leadership staff network to discuss their plans to mark International Women's Day, the theme for this year and the importance of the staff network in challenging bias and inequality in the workplace.

In a recently published statistics report, we looked at the number of students taking each GCSE in 2015 and the percentage of these students who went on to take an A Level in the same subject.

Since 2015, the number of girls taking A-level sciences has continued to increase yearly across the UK. This year just over half (50.3%) of science A-level entries came from female candidates, compared with 46.9% last year.

Two inspirational employees, who have been instrumental in founding and progressing Cambridge Assessment's Women in Leadership group, discuss the importance of gender equality within the organisation.

Retiring chairs of staff networks Chloe Shaw and Will Saville discuss the positive impact that the groups have had on the Cambridge Assessment community.

Gender and assessment - surely everything's changed... but it's not clear that it has...