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If you are a male software engineer, you're likely to be earning around $96,000 a year. If you're a female doing the same job you'll be getting $69,000, signalling that gender discrimination doesn't just persist in the ICT sector, it positively thrives.

Technology has played a major role in bringing women into the workplace, and provided a largely gender-neutral communications platform. But there is still a way to go in terms of achieving full gender equity in the IT&T sector and more broadly in society.

Two decades ago the big photo opportunity for women was as a scantily clad page three girl. Today with women running computer companies, banks, newspapers - even the country - women have more opportunities than ever to be seen and heard, both in traditional and online media.

The call has gone out for women ICT professionals to step forward and act as mentors for females entering the profession, a group still significantly outnumbered by their male peers.