Women say they struggle with office politics

Office politics are a stumbling block for the majority of women in IT jobs, a new survey has suggested.

Womenintechnology.co.uk and Societe Generale revealed that 77% of female professionals in the technology industry feel they need to learn more about how to deal with office politics issues.

And sabotage, labelling and stereotyping in the workplace had been suffered by 53% of attendants to a seminar organised by the two firms.

Women need more confidence in dealing with these situations and a better ability to identify them when they arise, womenintechnology.co.uk stated.

Maggie Berry, director of the firm, said: 'All our events aim to empower women who are working in a male-dominated industry and hopefully the attendees felt this was another step forward in us doing that.'

The gender pay gap is evidence that women are being penalised for having children, the Trades Union Congress said recently.