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Featured, News - Monday, March 8, 2010 15:45 - 1 Comment
Fighting inequality, but celebrating: Women in ICT
Hundreds of women in Australia’s technology industry gathered in Sydney today to celebrate International Women’s Day and pass on hard-won lessons from the front lines working in a sector which continues to be dominated by men.
NSW MP Jodie McKay (pictured), who among other portfolio responsibilities is the state’s Minister for Women, told a lunch held by Females in Information Technology and Telecommunications (FITT) at the Four Seasons Hotel that “worrying declines” had appeared in terms of women’s representation in Australia’s ICT workforce and in the ranks of those studying to join it.
Only one in five Australians studying to work in ICT was a woman, she said, and that number had been in decline since 2000. Although the industry as a whole was growing, she added, women were under-represented — and the proportion of women in the workforce had not kept pace with that industry growth. Only 15.2 percent of Australia’s ICT industry workers were women — a drop of almost 4 percent compared with figures from 1996.
Furthermore, McKay said, inequity in gender pay remained an issue — she said on average women employed in the industry full-time earned more than $300 per week less than men. And male pay packets were growing at a faster rate than those of women.










