Women in tech want real change not box ticking
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Women helping to lead some of the countryâs biggest tech companies donât want cupcakes and leadership training: they want paternity leave to be the norm, transparent salaries, and for diversity to extend beyond being a box ticking exercise.
Speaking to
The Australian Financial Review in the lead up to this yearâs International Womenâs Day, women in executive roles at companies such as Xero, Whispir and Salesforce shared common experiences of feeling like they couldnât be themselves if they wanted to succeed early in their careers, and immense frustration at women still being treated like they needed coaching, or mentorship, in order to take on leadership qualities more commonly associated with men.
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Victoria’s Contact Tracing Flaws to Be Laid Bare
Victoria will learn if its contact tracing shortcomings have been remedied since the system was “overwhelmed” during the state’s deadly second wave.
A report into the state’s contract tracing program will be tabled in Victorian parliament on Dec. 14 after it was put under the microscope by an upper house inquiry.
Headed by Reason Party MP Fiona Patten, the parliamentary inquiry probed issues with contact tracing across the second wave which led to more than 18,000 infections and 800 deaths and the regime’s readiness to quash future outbreaks.
Alan Finkel, who conducted a review of the nation’s contact tracing capabilities, said Victoria’s system wasn’t designed for the influx of coronavirus cases it experienced.