It starts early! A conversation with Career Development Expert Anne Wilson

Anne Wilson is currently (but not for much longer) Head of Careers at Warwick University. We have a shared passion for Gender Equality and amongst other things, Anne has spent her own career furthering the advancement of women by helping them overcome the barriers to success.

So we have much in common!

Her experience in this area is vast. From the late eighties, when she ran a survey in the local paper aimed at understanding what would encourage women returners (spoiler alert *no different to today!) to the programme she managed at Warwick, to help prepare female undergraduates for the work place.

There are many insights and stacks of wisdom in this conversation but three key takeouts

1. Not much has really changed for women in the last 40 years.

2. The challenges for women, internal and external start way before entering the work place

3. It's no good fixing the system without supporting women to better navigate it and vice versa you have to do both!

And if you ever wondered why gilders were all men, apparently it's because women 'lose the knack' after they've had children!