While it’s important to celebrate women today, International Women’s Day also presents an opportunity to highlight how we can do better to prevent ongoing inequality and injustices that still exist for women and non-binary people within tech. ‘New tech’, like AI, robotics and VR, are the fastest growing industries in Australia, yet women are significantly… Read more »
We have much to celebrate in moving the needle for gender diversity at work. However, things are not progressing in the same way for all women. If addressing the imbalance of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women in your workplace is not a priority, you are missing out on a deep pool of untapped talent,… Read more »
Australian women have been most effective, politically, when they have harnessed their collective rage and turned it into action. They need to do it again now. Like many Australians, I was delighted when activist Grace Tame was named the 2021 Australian of the Year. Tame is a powerful advocate for survivors of child sexual abuse,… Read more »
We asked a few women in startups what International Women’s Day means to them.
“A balanced world is a better world”, internationalwomensday.com tells us, and then asks how us to think about how everyone can “help forge a more gender-balanced world”.
A survey found over 65 percent of the Australian workforce would like to see more women in leadership roles, with almost half the women women surveyed stating they would like to pursue a leadership role in the future.
I recently attended an event encouraging women to get involved in the startup ecosystem at the new Sydney Startup Hub. While I applaud the aim of the event, I left with my blood boiling.
To be held at Fishburners on International Women’s Day will be a group session helping founders work through a problem, followed by 1:1 office hour slots.
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