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.

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. 

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.

Greater female representation in Australian ICT organisations won’t come about by accident, notes BeyondTrust’s VP Talent Management, Laura Edwards-Lassner

As businesses look to achieve greater output efficiency following years of stagnation, they often need not look further than their people.

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.

As a turning point in my career, I decided to be openly creative with personality, which landed me a regional role based in Singapore.

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.

It's important to remember that it's impossible to please everyone, and trying to do so is a recipe for unhappiness.

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.

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.

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.

From artists to songwriters, producers, executives and beyond - women continue to be chronically underrepresented at all levels across the industry.

Demand for developers continues to outstrip supply, and this mismatch poses a major threat to Australian companies looking to compete on the world stage.

Women only make up 36% of enrolments in university STEM courses and just 16% of enrolments in vocational STEM courses.

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.

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.

Sarah Danzl, VP of Communications and Customer Advocacy at Degreed, discusses how to build a lasting career this International Women’s Day.

While women make up 51% of the population and half of the workforce, they account for just 16% of the Quantity Surveying profession.

A key factor in growing the number of women founders is attracting and retaining more women in the sector in the first place. 

Making our digital world more gender-balanced requires both including more women in tech roles, as well as creating an environment for them.

Being a subset of STEM, the information systems and technology space has also been male-dominated and riddled with gender biases and stereotypes.

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.

The past decade alone has seen big changes to female representation in the workplace, but there's still a long way to go.