The technology industry and its culture has undoubtedly evolved throughout the decades. As part of the tech sector for the last 24 years, it’s been fascinating to see this evolution and pace of change.
Australia’s largest life insurer, TAL, is working to boost the ranks of women in IT both within the organisation and in the tech sector more generally.
A federal Labor government would fund a program to encourage more girls and young women to code, Bill Shorten announced today.
IT has a diversity problem. And despite being widely acknowledged for a long time, it's not going away in a hurry. Although it's hardly confined to gender, it is the startling gap between men and women in tech — in terms of representation, income and treatment — that has been best studied and documented.
Kaylene O'Brien, deputy chair of networking forum Vic ICT for Women, is one of many Australian ICT workers who have experienced gender discrimination.