Last year we saw rapid innovation that has changed our world for the better. A COVID-19 vaccine was developed, businesses pivoted to be completely online, and we collaborated successfully across the public and private sector to develop contact tracing apps.
We’ve shown how we can use our ability to be agile and innovate to survive this pandemic, and we need to apply that same ability to addressing the challenge of female equality, particularly in tech.
The proportion of women working across all STEM-qualified industries has continually increased from 24 per cent in 2016 to 28 per cent in 2020. Jessica Shapiro
While it’s promising to see the proportion of women working across all STEM-qualified industries has continually increased from 24 per cent in 2016 to 28 per cent in 2020.
Continue reading: https://www.afr.com/technology/business-can-t-leave-women-behind-in-a-digital-first-world-20211208-p59fzs
We’ve shown how we can use our ability to be agile and innovate to survive this pandemic, and we need to apply that same ability to addressing the challenge of female equality, particularly in tech.
The proportion of women working across all STEM-qualified industries has continually increased from 24 per cent in 2016 to 28 per cent in 2020. Jessica Shapiro
While it’s promising to see the proportion of women working across all STEM-qualified industries has continually increased from 24 per cent in 2016 to 28 per cent in 2020.
It’s also important to recognize that just five years after graduating, men with a STEM qualification were 1.8 times more likely to be working in a STEM-qualified occupation compared with their women peers.Businesses must actively seek out the data and insights to identify where their policies could systematically be discouraging women.
Continue reading: https://www.afr.com/technology/business-can-t-leave-women-behind-in-a-digital-first-world-20211208-p59fzs