women in tech
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Australia’s STEM Gender Problem Is Getting $3.9m In Government Funding
It’s not news that women are underrepresented in STEM related studies and professions. Only one in four IT graduates and fewer than one in 10 engineering graduates are women. Women occupy fewer than one in five senior researcher positions in Australian universities and research institutes, and are less than half the overall STEM workforce. To…
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Meet The Real-Life Superhero Who’s Getting Aussie Schoolgirls Into STEM
Princesses have their place in the world, but they’re not the role models young girls need anymore. That was the message that Dr Jenine Beekhuyzen — also known by her superhero alibi ‘Jewella’ — delivered last week at the DISRUPT.SYDNEY event, speaking about her brainchild the ‘Tech Girls Movement’.
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The Internet’s Best Responses To Computer Engineer Barbie
Yesterday, the internet got wind of one of the more recent installments in the Barbie literary canon, I Can Be a Computer Engineer. As it turns out, Barbie’s idea of being a computer engineer consists mostly of freaking out and asking Steven and Brian to fix her bad dumb girl code. Fortunately, the awesome backlash…