Vic ICT for Women’s Tech Diversity award winning program Grad Girls is kicking off on February 21st 2019. Grad Girls is a FREE 1 year program for female STEM university students interested in a career in a technology related field and who want to understand the...
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I am often told I am intimidating. This is something that I take personally and would go as far as to say insulted by. In this blog I will look at the differences between the two terms and their repercussions on confidence and career progression. Difference in...
Pay inequality in tech: How close are we to closing the gap?
Gender equality in STEM fields has been an inescapable issue for what seems like an age. Women were instrumental in the foundation of computer science, yet their presence in the tech field has been lacking in recent decades. Thanks to countless people working to...
Sedgman’s support for new parent employees
Part of Sedgman’s commitment to gender equality is ensuring that all employees know they are supported when circumstances in their lives change. As a reminder of this support, Sedgman now sends its employees a Sedgman bib to welcome newborn additions to their...
Looking back on a year of social impact
In 2018, the International Women’s Day theme was #PressForProgress and, as we embraced the topic, we made it the year of change at WORK180. Every day at WORK180, we work closely with employers from small independent companies to large multinationals, growing and...
Learn, Share, Achieve – Juliana Goncalves de Azevedo on how to build a career in Chemical Engineering
Like the majority of successful engineers, Alcoa’s Juliana Goncalves de Azevedo likes learning, improving things and overcoming new challenges. But unlike the majority, she’s a woman. This seems an obvious place to begin our conversation, so we ask her how it has...
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