Gender equality stories
I shifted my focus to honing my unique qualities and skills to become a manager, leader, and founder of a company in a way that comes authentically to me.
Combining the powerful force of technology with the personal and emotional threads of fashion is currently underrepresented and underappreciated in Australia.
To promote gender equality in cybersecurity, it is essential to embrace both innovation and technology, as they have the power to transform the industry.
Findings from the Qualtrics study highlight the diverse gender experience gaps that exist in workplaces across Australia and New Zealand.
Have the confidence to step up and you'll inspire other women to do likewise, writes Jamf's Senior Manager Customer Success APAC, Melissa Antoine.
Companies will embrace equitable policies and practices faster if senior candidates make it clear that they matter.
We're so clearly already living in a digital-first world, so how do we start to solve the issue of the lack of gender balance in tech?.
Although opportunities for women have grown in the workplace, there's still a significant gap between male and female employees in management.
Going into this case study, we expected that we would gain an understanding of systemic factors that help bring more women into tech.
Encouraging more women into the global tech industry represents an opportunity for businesses to tap into bigger talent pools and diversified skillsets.
Hybrid work arrangements have the potential to create gaps between those who work from home and those who work in the office, regardless of gender.
One of the more difficult challenges to overcome is that women, quite simply, aren't putting themselves forward or applying for these roles.
While the information management (IM) and data privacy sectors are well represented by women, the more senior the role, the bigger the gender disparity becomes.
It's important to remember that it's impossible to please everyone, and trying to do so is a recipe for unhappiness.
Life isn't fair and many people find themselves in challenging circumstances that make it hard to get out of the starting blocks.
As a turning point in my career, I decided to be openly creative with personality, which landed me a regional role based in Singapore.
The rapid normalisation of remote work has made both flexible working and working from home less stigmatised and could ultimately work in women's favour.
Inspiring young girls with the transformational power of technology will help close the sector's stubbornly wide gender gap.
While women have made significant strides towards gender equality in the workplace in recent years, gender equality remains a large social issue.
Mentoring and sponsorship can help women reach their full potential in male-dominated industries, like IT, on International Women's Day 2023.