Making our digital world more gender-balanced requires both including more women in tech roles, as well as creating an environment for them.

The technology industry is growing at a fast pace, and keeping that in mind, it is increasingly important that all businesses should be represented by a gender-diverse workforce.

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.

Australia's technology companies have adopted a range of policies designed to support gender equity and equality in the workplace, but much work remains to be done.

As we 'celebrate' another International Women's Day, the time for Australian companies to take action to close the gender pay gap is now.

While women make up 51% of the population and half of the workforce, they account for just 16% of the Quantity Surveying profession.

It's important to remember that it's impossible to please everyone, and trying to do so is a recipe for unhappiness.

There are abundant opportunities for ambitious, intelligent women to pursue interesting and rewarding careers, and we're seeing more of them rising up the ranks in vendor and service provider organisations.

I started building my career to escape the limits set for me by my background, but today I continue to do it because it's what I love.

How do we challenge tech companies to review practices to become more inclusive and to empower women to bring out their best potential?

Despite the celebrated response to the pandemic by female leaders, women still trail men when it comes to securing decision-making and C-suite positions.

In championing women in ICT, we must create equitable conditions for female ICT students and professionals to flourish at every stage of their career.

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 entrepreneurs that I met before starting my own journey saw the world differently, and I wanted to see the world from their lens.

Organisations today must strive to constantly recalibrate their processes to promote a diverse, inclusive, and progressive workplace culture.

Despite women comprising 47.9% of Australia's workforce and enrolling in STEM courses at a faster rate than men, they still only make up 26% of the country's technology workers.

Access to someone more experienced, whether from the same industry or the broader business sphere, who’s able to act as a role model can help women and men develop professionally at all stages of their careers.

Life isn’t fair and many people find themselves in challenging circumstances that make it hard to get out of the starting blocks.

Diverse teams are known to be more innovative and better equipped to identify new opportunities and solutions that may not have been apparent to a homogeneous group.

As businesses look to achieve greater output efficiency following years of stagnation, they often need not look further than their people.

A key factor in growing the number of women founders is attracting and retaining more women in the sector in the first place. 

One of the more difficult challenges to overcome is that women, quite simply, aren't putting themselves forward or applying for these roles.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has to date been a male-dominated industry that is lacking in female participation across Australia, as well as on a global scale.

The campaign to encourage girls into STEM subjects is an admirable one, but there's more to gender equity than education alone.