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In recent days I have been going out to various ICT industry functions in Sydney. Two of the speakers stood out from the rest. The first was Robyn Henderson who spoke at the FITT networking session, and the second was Gordon Bell who spoke at the AVCAL breakfast. Each of
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Just had an anonymous comment on an old post. The commenter said: "Honey, you must be very young. It's not just about how hard you work. The ole' boy's network is alive and well - you just haven't reached a high enough
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What a surprise- another year of women complaining that there are not enough women in the IT industry! We get the token female CEO or CIO to talk at our IWD lunches & we all shake our heads in horror that there are not more women in the industry. Why
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This is a story from my undergraduate days in one of Australia's *sandstone universities. In the philosophy department there had been a split between the 'old fashioned' philosophers (called "Trad & Mod Philosophy", i.e. the logicians), and the 'modern' philosophers (called
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Not many active organisations for women in I.T. in Australia, the FITT mission is to: * Encourage more women into the ICT industry * Encourage women in the industry to achieve their personal aspirations * Assist women to better understand ICT http://www.fitt.org.au/
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More food for thought from Ally about women, men & feminism ... As Ally notes, "What too many women do not understand is just how privileged we truly are - especially in today's climate in the free world. We are not caged by our womb - we are
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According to Yvonne Roberts, society has not shaken off stereotypes of mothers, homemakers or tarts : Why a man can't see the other woman Hmmm, of course there are no negative stereotypes associated with men. That's why they are so happy that they are killing themselves at
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During my review of newstand women's magazines it has become clear that there are only 3 things of interest to women: 1) looking sexy 2) food - both eating and cooking thereof 3) creating 'lovely' living spaces This must mean that women who do not have
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My post the other day on this topic revealed my complete ignorance of house & home magazines (this deficiency in my reading was kindly pointed out in a recent comment). I have rushed to the store to get hold of a bunch of womens' magazines and have been reading
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It is astonishing that many women in the west still seem to be obsessed with housework and cleaning in spite of the advances women have made in the past 100 years. A recent series of visits to various online women's groups (that are ostensibly about something else) showed
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I do not have children, nor do I plan to reproduce - so I suppose you could say I have no skin in this particular game. But I've been thinking about the debates around maternity leave and the low birthrate that have occurred recently in Australia. The key
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Women in the western world are actually very lucky in many ways. Now there are so many choices for women - education, full time career, part time work, family, no family, travel, etc. But for men there does not seem to be so many choices. Many women of my acquaintance