plakboek (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} plakboek) wrote,@ 2006-04-21 22:18:00 |
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Despite our best efforts
Any discipline with a significant gender imbalance is the poorer for it.
A recent report in The Age newspaper indicated that "Google Australia can't find any female engineers who want to work for it. Internationally, the search engine behemoth strives to employ workers from many backgrounds, a recognition that its customers also come from every background. In Australia it hired more than 10 engineers from five ethnic backgrounds - but despite its best efforts, not a single woman."
I was interested to read the words and work by the representative of the Victorian ICT for Women Network mentioned in the article, Rhonda O'Donnell (Novell Asia Pacific). Perhaps this is somebody to invite and involve in a VITTA conference / special gathering / something?
