Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!mcvax!comp.lancs.ac.uk!craig@uunet.UU.NET From: mcvax!comp.lancs.ac.uk!craig@uunet.UU.NET (Craig) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Working at Home Message-ID: <11433@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 27 Jun 88 11:11:38 GMT References: <11167@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <11235@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK. Lines: 26 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu There is a company here in the UK that specialises in 'Working from Home', F International Group plc (to give it its full title) was set up by Mrs. Steve Shirley with the express intention of providing an environement where home working was easy. The policy is an equal opportunities one with both men and women working from home and covers all levels of the organisation, not just professional ones (although I can't imagine the cleaners working from home :-)). This doesn't mean it is perfect - they were unable to organise workplace child care facilities and they are not without their critics. However they do support the womens movement and are concerned to get it right. As a for instance they are currently sponsoring the Women into Computing conference being held here at the University of Lancaster and are also involved with the University of Salford student sponsorship scheme. It can work if tried. Craig. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!craig| Post: University of Lancaster, DARPA: craig%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Department of Computing, JANET: craig@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4476 | LA1 4YR