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• Lack of awareness about IT careers is main deterrence for women: Go Girl

  The Victorian ICT for Women network is holding a bi-annual two-day IT careers expo — Go Girl, Go for IT — in June this year which is designed to help entice more female students in Years 8-11 to pursue a career in IT by exposing them to diverse roles in the industry.

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  At least 1 woman should be interviewed for every IT job opening, advocacy group says

  A not-for-profit group advocating there be more women working in information technology has just published a report that says recruiters for high-tech jobs should make sure there is at least one woman candidate for every job opening in IT.

• ICT needs more women: ACS

  Women have an integral role to play within the Australian information technology and communications industry, according to the Australian Computer Society (ACS).

• Women did well on Defcon social engineering test

  Of the 135 people Fortune 500 employees targeted by social engineering hackers in a recent contest only five of them refused to give up any corporate information whatsoever. And guess what? All five were women.

• More promotion needed to fix IT gender imbalance: CIO

  Getting the word out that IT is an ideal career path for women is the best way to reverse the wide gender imbalance, says a female CIO.

• Women in Tech gets new president, preps CIO program

  The Women in Technology (WiT) association has elected a new president and is preparing to launch its CIO Pathways Program after a successful trial last year.

• In pictures: International Women's Day

  Women in IT celebrate International Women's Day

• Internode appoints COO to drive business transformation

  National ISP Internode has appointed its first chief operating officer to manage its customer service, sales, media and product management business units.

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  Tech Ed: Women in IT

  Out of the 2500-odd IT professionals and developers at this year's Microsoft Tech Ed on the Gold Coast, only about 200 are women. The attendance of women is up 50 per cent from last year, but it's still a far cry from the number of men pouring through the doors.

• Women CIOs & the Art of Influence

  CIOs are leaders of change, and change is something most people resist. Therefore, the ability to influence stakeholders--including those over whom CIOs have no direct authority--is an essential but difficult skill to master.

• Initiative tracks women in IT from the Sahara to Antarctica

  A new online initiative promoting women in IT launched this week that follows the lives and careers of women in technology across every continent - including Antarctica - through an online diary format and photo album.