WITWA Blog
Event In Review – Dee Roche, The Art of Mentoring
“Mentoring is a two-way street; a beautiful reciprocity.” This is the message Dee Roche, Senior Management Consultant at AIM-UWA Business School Executive Education, so eloquently delivered in her presentation at our recent women-only breakfast event at the Parmelia Hilton.
A Call to Action for the Australian ICT Industry
Last week I attended a panel discussion organised by the ACS-Women titled, Where are all the women in technology? There’s no disputing the number of women in technology is diminishing even though we’re earning more university degrees and advanced degrees than the guys. While the whole IT sector is shrinking, it’s especially worrying to think women are no longer considering technology as a viable career path. The event didn’t cover any new ground and, in my mind, probably took a step towards reinforcing some of the problems in our industry.
Why Women Make Better Innovators
Our WITWA Chair, Marjolein Towler, had the opportunity to speak about Innovation at the IEEE-WISE conference held in Perth last month. For those of you that couldn’t make the event, Marjolein has generously shared her notes on her view of innovation and why she believes women hold more promise when it comes to innovative thinking.
What it means
Let’s start with the Wikipedia definition:
WITWA Weighs In: Pseudo-science in Fast Company
Not long ago we posted a tweet with a link to an article in Fast Company titled, How Come There Aren’t More Women in Technology? Before long, we were being accused of promoting pseudo-science because the explanation offered "hormones, brain anatomy, and mirror neurons" as reasons for the lack of women in the technology industry. We were delighted to get that response as the article does not support what we know about women in general. After trading tweets on the issue, we decided we needed to provide further opinion about the article and what we really think about it.
Mars and Venus: Are we STILL talking about that?
You've heard it all before, right? Men and women just don't operate the same way. A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled Mars and Venus: the difference between male and female entrepreneurs outlines several significant differences between the way men and women approach their own small businesses.
Feminine Values in Business
Halla Tomasdottir is an investment banker - an Icelandic investment banker. By rights she should be doing very badly since the Global Economic Crisis. But she isn’t. In fact, she is doing very well. Why? Hear her straight talk at TEDTalk about Feminine Values in Business and find out.