This week's newsround includes articles on women in the boardroom and the impact of the UK Budget on women.

NEWS - SCOTLAND

Scottish Review

Scotland's gender scandal: Part I  Tokenism at the top

NEWS - UK

The Guardian

Women and the budget: the chancellor has a chance to put things right

Quotas aren't the best way to get more women into boardrooms

Public sector cuts will hit women hard, thinktank warns

Women will need more than a spread in Grazia magazine to vote Tory

Where are all the female standups?

Fawcett Society

The Impact of Austerity on Women

Fawcett's immediate response to the budget

Financial Times

Gender pay gap larger than expected

The Telegraph

Norway's businesswomen and the boardroom bias debate

BBC News

Female school pupil named UK Young Scientist of the Year

Wales Online

Female unemployment rising in Wales

EVENTS

Apprenticeships and Training Conference 2012

Thursday 29 March, Edinburgh

Emma Ritch, Project Manager at Close the Gap will be speaking at the Apprenticeship and Training Conference on gender stereotyping in educaiton and training and the impact on sustainable economic growth.

Scottish Women's Convention: Women and Their Vote

Thursday 5th April 2012, 5.30pm – 8.30pm

Menzies Hotel, 27 Washington Street, Glasgow G3 8AZ

This lively and interactive event will look at issues around the difference voting can make to the lives of women. A manifesto will also be launched, reflecting the key issues for women in advance of the Local Government elections in May.  A light buffet and refreshments will be provided. If you would like to attend please email  info@scottishwomensconvention.org  or telephone 0141 248 8186.

Girls and digital culture: transnational reflections

Thursday 13th and Friday 14th September 2012

Kings College London, Strand Campus

This is an  international interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and Creative Industries and the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London.

The conference seeks to bring together current research exploring the relationship between contemporary girlhood and digital culture, in a transnational frame. Drawing on approaches from the arts, humanities and social sciences, the conference will look at how contemporary transformations and transnational interconnections may be challenging existing social and cultural categories, power structures and global hegemonies.

Conference organisers can be contacted at technologygirlsanddigitalculture@gmail.com