Bankwest works on getting more women into tech roles
Bankwest has launched a new initiative intended to encourage women to consider tech careers.
Bankwest has launched a new initiative intended to encourage women to consider tech careers.
The institute will undertake research in the emerging field of quantitative fairness and work with the public and private sectors to put the research into practice. It will release open source ethical AI tools that can be adopted and adapted, says director Bill Simpson-Young.
“You might find it ironic given my job title but I am on a mission to get rid of diversity,” says Aubrey Blanche, head of diversity and belonging at Atlassian.
However bad you think gender disparity is in the information security sector, the reality is probably worse: Research backed by information security association (ISC)² and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education reveals that women represent only some 11 per cent of the security workforce.
It will take close to three centuries for gender parity to be achieved among academics working in computer science unless action is taken to fix the imbalance, according to new research from the University of Melbourne.