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WiRE program aims to support women entrepreneurs across regional Queensland
The WiRE program works to research entrepreneurship and build frameworks which can help support women founders across the state.
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Social enterprise ecommerce startup Secret Sisterhood aims to tackle gender inequality globally
Helping connect women across the globe to charities working to put a stop to gender equalities is Sydney-based social enterprise Secret Sisterhood.
News & Analysis
The Working Lunch will provide women in the gaming industry with networking and mentoring opportunities
The IGEA has announced the launch of The Working Lunch, a program which aims to equip women looking to enter the gaming industry with skills and mentorship.
Profiles
Winkd is a dating app looking to help connect users at a venue in real-time
Predominantly aimed at LGBTQI users, Winkd is a dating app looking to bring the act of meeting someone back to its roots.
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Women didn’t just recently start coding, they actually STOPPED coding decades ago
It’s not so much that women only recently started coding; rather, some time in the 1980s, women stopped coding.
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Coder Factory wants to encourage more women to work in tech through a new scholarship
Sydney-based startup Coder Factory is looking to address the gender imbalance in tech with its new ‘Champions for Change’ initiative.
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CODR.TV aims to address gender imbalance in Aussie tech scene
“When I can walk into an office of a coding team and it’s a 50/50 split between men and women or when I have my own kids and they make up this amazing program in class as part of their core curriculum, I would feel like I’ve achieved what I’m setting out to do.”
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‘If you can’t see it, you can’t be it’: Female founders crushing stereotypes
Women’s participation and success in male-dominant industries is, at best, treated as an anomaly, and at worst, considered a farce.
Women in business’, ’women in tech’ and ‘women in politics’ have been the subject of debate for decades, with no end in sight.
And many men are tired of this conversation.
News & Analysis
Gender disparity in engineering: Dr Bronwyn Evans shares her view
Engineers Australia recently named Dr Bronwyn Evans, Professional Engineer of the Year 2013. After earning the prestigious title, Dr Evans spoke exclusively with Shoe String about the gender disparity in the engineering industry and her drive to change society’s perception of what it means to be an engineer – especially for women.
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Think Act Change: The Media, Gender, Power & Influence
In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman’s value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader. How and why should we change this? Last Tuesday ThinkActChange, tackled this question.
