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US-based Application Performance Infrastructure vendor, Riverbed, has appointed former Females in IT Chair, Terrie Anderson, as Regional Sales Director for Australia and New Zealand.

It seems the gender imbalance in the ICT industry is alive and well, with half of IT professionals in Australia believing women in the industry do not have the same career opportunities as men.

PeriCoach isn’t designed to help you cope with Nando’s sauces, but is a world-first Australian manufactured device and app designed to help women treat the condition of ‘bladder leakage’ through regular pelvic floor training.

Australia’s e-tail king, Kogan, has shared stats on the battle of the sexes and their preferred smartphone/tablet operating systems, with Microsoft phone users left looking through the window.

Prominent Women in ICT advocate Kate Muir has been awarded the Leoni Warne Promotion of Women in ICT Medal, presented by the Australian Computer Society at its Annual Canberra Conference dinner last night.

The gender gap in the New Zealand ICT market seems to have blown out, with a newly released report by a major recruitment firm revealing that men are by far and away better off in the remuneration benefit stakes than their female colleagues.

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.

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.

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.

Google wants to see more women in technology and is putting its money where its mouth is, announcing a $50 million initiative in a bid to close the technology gender divide and teach girls how to code.

International dating website EliteSingles has asked its members to open up about the taboo topic of cheating between men and women and it seems it’s the males who think sexual infidelity is worse, not the women. Despite their opinions, however, men say they are more likely to cheat sexually.

A senior executive of the National Australia Bank has called for more women to be placed in technology jobs and says that doing this, while creating greater diversity, will also bring “richer thinking” to organisations.

There’s a need to attract more young women to the ICT industry, with a study just released showing that women currently comprise less than 20% of the Australian ICT workforce.

Surprise, surprise, Microsoft looks to be moving into the women’s lingerie market with a nice over the shoulder twist of technology. And, it might be good for women's health too.

There’s something of a war for talent going on in New Zealand’s enterprise IT market between the private and public sectors, with new research revealing that commercial success for many of those enterprises is soaking up the supply of technology professionals.

Two well-known members of the free and open source software community have kicked off an initiative to promote women's participation in FOSS technology and culture.

Two well-known members of the free and open source software community have kicked off an initiative to promote women's participation in FOSS technology and culture.

RELDATA'S LANIE KRUGER RECEIVES RECOGNITION BY EVERYTHING CHANNEL'S CRN MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE TOP WOMEN OF THE CHANNEL

According to a new 2010 study from Wake Forest University and Florida State University, men are much more emotionally hurt than women are, when relationships turn sour.

For every 15 male IT managers there is just one female counterpart. Although lower down the IT tree the balance is slightly less skewed, still only one in five IT professionals is a woman - an issue which left unchecked could exacerbate the IT skills crisis according to recruitment firm Greythorn.