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Rima

Breaking barriers to women's tech careers by rethinking pathways

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Australia risks missing a USD $6.5 billion tech opportunity unless it opens flexible, skills-first pathways for women into digital roles.
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How to navigate a career change into tech. As a woman. In your 40s

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Women in their 40s are reclaiming tech careers, proving life experience, grit and curiosity can trump age bias and fast-track reinvention.
Paige

Balancing the scales for women’s leadership in tech

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Women are entering tech in force, but stubborn bias and weak support for carers still block their rise to the executive suite.
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How audiobooks help rewire your brain in ten seconds

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Audiobooks are emerging as a quiet tech revolution, helping women in tech rewire self-doubt with Venita Dimos's 10-second coaching tool.
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International Women's Day: The Australian entrepreneur proving you don't have to scale fast to succeed

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Ahead of IWD 2026, Craft Club's Nakisah Williams champions slow, sustainable growth over blitzscaling as a new model of female leadership.
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Style, substance, and strategy: Drawing similarities between pageantry and PR

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From runway to boardroom, Australia's pageant stage doubles as a high-stakes PR lab for purpose-driven personal branding in 2026.
Jade tang

Diverse perspectives driving innovation for the real world

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Female leadership at Tineco ANZ is reshaping consumer tech, proving diverse perspectives are vital to real-world innovation and growth.
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Breaking in without a blueprint: Lessons learned from my nontraditional path to cybersecurity

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From door-to-door sales to tracking ransomware, one woman proves cybersecurity careers can thrive far from the traditional path.
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From global engineer to data leader in Australia’s tech

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From Argentina to Adelaide, data analyst Jessica Molina Calabrese reveals how global experience can power a tech career in Australia.
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How a strong professional network gifts its members the support they need to stretch and grow

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A strong professional network offers candid counsel, shared experience and support, helping individuals make bolder, more deliberate career moves.
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You have to give to gain: Why I view mentorship as a force multiplier

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On International Women's Day, a telecom leader argues that mentorship lets women give to gain, multiplying influence across STEM.
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This International Women's Day, lean on proof (of skill, of impact and of potential)

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This International Women's Day, experts urge proof of skills through hands-on practice to close confidence gaps and drive real career growth.
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The women winning in AI aren't the ones who had it all figured out

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Women rising fastest in AI are those embracing uncertainty and adaptability, not those waiting until they feel fully prepared or perfectly ready.
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AI exposes emotional labour silently draining women

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AI is exposing the invisible emotional labour taxing women leaders, turning unmeasured mental load into hard data companies can't ignore.
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Women in tech & finance call for systems to catch up

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Women in tech and finance say workplaces must be redesigned, with data-led accountability and digital finance access to match women's ambitions.
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Why more women should choose to be sigma women

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Sigma women reject shrinking and approval-seeking, choosing self-led clarity, quiet power and boundaries at every stage of life.
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International Women's Day: Scaling a business while putting women first

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With a 97% female workforce, Grace Loves Lace shows how scaling a global bridal brand can put women's empowerment at its core.
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From NOC night shifts to leading change in network ops

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On Women's Day, a former night-shift engineer shares how resilience, support and fair chances turned NOC grind into tech leadership.
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Representation in tech cannot lag in the age of AI

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As AI reshapes daily life at speed, tech must confront representation gaps to avoid scaling bias and lock women out of future power.
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Why the tech industry needs courageous women who lead differently

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As International Women's Day nears, tech's future hinges on courageous women redefining leadership norms, not just filling seats.