IWD 2020: Developing The Old Girls’ Network: Supporting Senior Women In Digital | Melbourne

About this event

There continues to be an ongoing problem for the number of women in IT in Australia; only a fifth of IT graduates are women, and women in IT hold only a quarter of the jobs, while being 48% of the entire Australian workforce.

There are many initiatives to increase the number of girls choosing STEM pathways at school, but what about the women who are already in IT? How do we keep the senior women in IT to provide guidance, advocacy and role models for those younger women? With 50% of women in IT eventually leaving, we are facing a problem at both ends of the pipeline.

Mags Hanley, alongside a panel of senior tech professionals, will discuss the struggles that women in IT face as they grow older, and the organisations, programs, communities and training out there to support women to stay in the tech industry.