Ep 10: Jenine Beekhuyzen—The superpowers of women in tech and how we can save the industry

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Jenine Beekhuyzen is the Founder of The Tech Girls Movement, inspiring and empowering young women to consider and pursue careers in tech industries. Listen to hear about the skills gap we'll face over the next 5-10 years and what we can do about it. We also discuss how we can normalise the conversation and what we can do to challenge our unconscious bias.

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Show notes

• Upcoming events
• Book launch: Tech Girls are Superheros 2 (7 December 2016)
• Pre-order free copies for daughters, nieces or schools.
• Support the movement by buying a hardcopy or eBook.
• Competition: Search for the Next Tech Girl Superhero (8 March 2017)
• Get your daughters, nieces or school involved, follow on social media, or subscribe to hear more.
• Reach out to be a mentor (men or women), or make contact to offer your support in other ways
• Jenine’s links
• The Tech Girls Movement
• Adriot Research (Jenine’s company)
• The Tech Girls feed into the global Technovation Challenge
• Jenine appeared on Good Game 12/11/2016
• Jenine’s TEDx talk
• Research
• The challenges women face in IT
• Pay equality (for same positions)
• Bias in recruitment and selection
• Cultural issues in the workplace
• The benefits to business in embracing equality and diversity, could be:
• Benefits of women in IT
• Benefits of diversity in the workplace
• Cyber-bullying resources for children/parents
• Project Rockit I found http://projectrockit.com.au/
• Tara Moss