Displaying items by tag: Women in tech

Increasing women’s participation in technology careers could represent a $6.5 billion opportunity for Australian businesses, according to a new report which has analysed Australia’s the tech talent shortage.

Digital advertising business specialising in property Rea Group is expanding its 2022 Springboard to Tech Program, making eight places available for women looking to take up a career in technology.

The Australian Labor Party has ruled out repealing the encryption law that was passed last year if it is elected, but says it will speedily incorporate the 170-odd amendments that were drafted, but not included in the law.

Only half of Australian women currently working in tech globally feel that the tech industry today is prioritising gender diversity, according to newly released research.

How do you build, and then protect, the right company culture? According to Merritt Anderson, the answer is you work at it.

One of Australia's few female chief information officers is noncommittal about the idea of quotas for women in tech, but says that with current moves to boost the number of women in the industry not working, something else needs to be done.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may be transforming the company from a monolithic, old-school giant to an agile mobile-focussed beast but his views on women in tech might need some adjustment too after he told an audience of women they don't need to ask for a raise.

Apple and JB Hi-Fi have become the latest tech-related companies to release their workplace diversity reports, and both have admitted they're not doing well enough.

Over 1300 Victorian high school girls have declared 'IT is it' at a massive event held to learn and talk about careers in IT.

Twitter today joined other big tech companies in admitting it has a diversity problem, revealing it has been hiring too many white and Asian men at the expense of women, black and Latino workers.

Women in Innovation and Technology SA (WITSA), in collaboration with News Corp Australia, has launched the inaugural Women in Innovation Awards SA in a bid to highlight the state's best female innovators, intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs.

Five young Australian women have launched Girl Geek Academy, a new startup aiming to teach one million women how to build apps and create startups by 2025.