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.
There has been little change to the proportion of female employees at Australia’s technology and telecommunications companies, although the gender pay gap is trending down, according to new data release today by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
Cloud accounting software firm Xero and software company Cogent will be giving paid internships to young women wanting to break into the technology sector as part of a Code Like A Girl initiative.
Women in cyber security face “persistent and enduring barriers” a review of research commissioned by the Office of the Cyber Security Special Adviser has revealed.
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.
Passion and persistence makes the successful entrepreneur, according to four Australian women entrepreneurs who lead their own startups.
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.
Gender separation across the ICT industry has had a significant impact on salaries in the sector, with women working in technical roles paid up to 28 per cent less than their male counterparts, according to research by the Information Technology and Contract Recruitment Association (ITCRA).