women in tech
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These Aussie Schoolgirls Are Converting An Old Range Rover Into An EV
A group of 25 female students from a school in Bendigo are leading the way with electric vehicles by converting an old Range Rover into an EV as part of a new school initiative. The exciting new project kicked off last month and will take place over the course of a year, with students from…
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88 Year Old Statistics Pioneer Says Some Barriers For Women In STEM ‘Haven’t Changed Since The 60’s’
Gender equity is among the topics tackled at the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) Optimise 2018 conference, which opens today. At the conference on Wednesday, three generations of women in STEM are coming together to discuss how far the industry has come – and far it has to go, considering men make up 84 per…
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Thriving As A ‘Woman In Tech’
“I don’t think of myself as ‘a women in tech’,” Candace Worley, Vice President and Chief Technical Strategist at McAfee tells me. “I think of myself as a tech professional – so when someone does point out the uniqueness of my gender in the industry it always surprises me that they even noticed.” “I just…
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New Study Says The Gender Gap In Science Could Take Generations To Fix
Without further interventions, the gender gap in the science workforce is likely to persist for generations, particularly in surgery, computer science, physics and maths. That’s based on research by me and two colleagues, published today in PLOS Biology, which mapped the gender gap using data on 36 million authors of more than 10 million articles…