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Reading Room have been shortlisted alongside BT, Dell and Lloyds TSB for the award for the top company in the UK advancing women in technology at the BlackBerry Women and Technology Awards.
The results of Reading Room's strategies for advancing women in the company speak for themselves: more than 45 per cent of senior managers in the company are women - an extraordinary statistic considering that across the entire digital communications industry, women are underrepresented at all levels.
As a company that encourages individuals to reach their fullest potential, Reading Room is pleased to have seen a number of our female members of staff achieve significant external recognition through their successes.
In 2007 Reading Room CEO Margaret Manning was named in the Observer's Courvoisier 500 - a list naming the most influential people in different areas of life in the UK - as one of the top 50 people to watch in the media.
In 2008 Margaret has also been shortlisted - as one of four businesswomen - for the Fast Growth Business Award's Female Entrepreneur of the Year award, a key criterion of which was providing evidence that Margaret had positively influenced other women in business, either through inspiration, mentoring, public speaking or the focus of the business.
There is a strong culture of internal promotion at Reading Room, which has seen a number of women in the company promoted to senior positions. Sarah Vick, for example, who joined the company as a project manager in 2002, quickly progressed to become a director in 2004 and as client services director was this year named in the 2008 Young Business Leaders Edition of Who's Who Of Britain's Business Elite.
Margaret Manning said:
"Digital is often seen as a male-dominated sector and it is fantastic that the culture we have created at Reading Room in which women and men thrive equally, has been recognised at the BlackBerry awards alongside such household names like Dell and BT."
The award is being judged on May 6.
For further information please contact Louise Richardson on 020 7173 2814
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