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IWD / International Women's Day stories - Page 2

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IWD 2023: Promoting diversity in the data analytics workforce
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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The technology industry is growing at a fast pace, and keeping that in mind, it is increasingly important that all businesses should be represented by a gender-diverse workforce.
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IWD 2023: Building on Momentum to Empower Equity
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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At the very basic level, ensuring equity is very simply the right thing to do. Today, it has also become a table-stake for attracting and retaining top talent. 
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IWD 2023: How women in tech can ‘embrace equity’ by supporting each other
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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When women support and empower each other, we can both increase gender diversity in tech and create real change in the community and our workplaces.
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IWD 2023: How programs can contribute to a healthier gender balance
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Greater female representation in Australian ICT organisations won’t come about by accident, notes BeyondTrust’s VP Talent Management, Laura Edwards-Lassner
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IWD 2023: Diverse perspectives for post pandemic regeneration
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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As businesses look to achieve greater output efficiency following years of stagnation, they often need not look further than their people.
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IWD 2023: Supporters in high places - How a sponsor can send your career soaring
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Access to someone more experienced, whether from the same industry or the broader business sphere, who’s able to act as a role model can help women and men develop professionally at all stages of their careers.
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IWD 2023: My journey of resilience, loyalty, positivity and authenticity
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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As a turning point in my career, I decided to be openly creative with personality, which landed me a regional role based in Singapore.
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IWD 2023: Why Women Are the Answer to Cybersecurity’s Talent Shortage
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Despite progress made in bringing more women into the industry over the last few years, they still only make up 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce.
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IWD 2023: Overcoming gender biases in the tech industry and beyond
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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It's important to remember that it's impossible to please everyone, and trying to do so is a recipe for unhappiness.
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IWD 2023: Australia's tech sector needs more diversity
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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As Australia's tech industry continues to evolve, the sector is still finding its feet when it comes to gender equity despite attracting young and diverse talent.
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IWD 2023: Culture Matters - How to Cultivate Elite, Highly Effective Teams
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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I've been a manager for more than 15 years, and during that time, I've learned not only from others' mistakes and best practices but from my own.
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IWD 2023: How demonstrating your expertise can help other women get on in the ICT industry
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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There are abundant opportunities for ambitious, intelligent women to pursue interesting and rewarding careers, and we're seeing more of them rising up the ranks in vendor and service provider organisations.
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IWD 2023: Why we must be louder about women in music
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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From artists to songwriters, producers, executives and beyond - women continue to be chronically underrepresented at all levels across the industry.
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IWD 2023: How open source and AI can solve Australia’s skills shortage
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Demand for developers continues to outstrip supply, and this mismatch poses a major threat to Australian companies looking to compete on the world stage.
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IWD 2023: 26.7% of Women in Tech is not nearly enough
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Women only make up 36% of enrolments in university STEM courses and just 16% of enrolments in vocational STEM courses.
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IWD 2023: Why gender equality requires more than corporate policies
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Australia's technology companies have adopted a range of policies designed to support gender equity and equality in the workplace, but much work remains to be done.
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IWD 2023: How we can help women transform STEM fields
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has to date been a male-dominated industry that is lacking in female participation across Australia, as well as on a global scale.
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IWD 2023: Building the skills and mindset you need for a lasting career
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Sarah Danzl, VP of Communications and Customer Advocacy at Degreed, discusses how to build a lasting career this International Women’s Day.
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IWD 2023: Encouraging the next generation of women into the tech industry
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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While women make up 51% of the population and half of the workforce, they account for just 16% of the Quantity Surveying profession.
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IWD 2023: So where are all the female founders in the IT sector?
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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A key factor in growing the number of women founders is attracting and retaining more women in the sector in the first place. 
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IWD 2023: Creating opportunities through education and sponsoring
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Making our digital world more gender-balanced requires both including more women in tech roles, as well as creating an environment for them.
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IWD 2023: Women in Technology - A Perspective from the Academics
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Being a subset of STEM, the information systems and technology space has also been male-dominated and riddled with gender biases and stereotypes.
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IWD 2023: Women disrupting tech - Leading the charge in innovation and inclusion
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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Despite women comprising 47.9% of Australia's workforce and enrolling in STEM courses at a faster rate than men, they still only make up 26% of the country's technology workers.
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IWD 2023: Supporting Women in the Workplace, Beyond International Women's Day
Wed, 8th Mar 2023
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The past decade alone has seen big changes to female representation in the workplace, but there's still a long way to go.
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