Women in ICT - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• Claudia Vidal: Corporate bullying, abuse of power, and the lack of women in technology

  What is preventing women from joining the tech industry?

• How to develop the next generation of business technology leaders

  A look at some of the programmes that aim to build a pipeline of digital talent for today and in the future.
  
  

• Shadow Tech Day: Millennials investigate an IT future

  For three years, New Zealand companies have been providing female high school students the opportunity to work alongside their IT teams.

• In Pictures: 9 programming languages and the women who created them

  From the dawn of mainframes through today, women have designed and developed programming languages that have had significant, lasting impact on software development

• Secret men's business revealed

  Norwegian research reveals that private, manipulative decision-making is rife on company boards and that some directors are more equal than others.
  An academic study from the Scandinavian country that mandates that company boards must comprise at least 40 per cent women confirms what many female directors already know: Men are chronically underprepared for board meetings.

• Glass ceiling firmly in place

  The mental model of male leadership was still deeply embedded in business and this meant formal policies to increase the number of women in management were failing, said researcher and consultant Hannah Piterman, author of The Leadership Challenge: Women in Management.
  "The move by women into leadership has been sluggish to say the least. There's a moral dimension that cannot be ignored. Entrenched beliefs regarding the role of men and women in society continue to be played out in organisational life," she said at the launch, organised by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) in Sydney.