ALTA forum 2017

Notes reported from work table 1: Women In IT

• straight IT undergraduate courses are not attractive to females: maybe target postgraduate studies
• present positive messages: come to IT and solve the problems of the world! be change agents (“we need more females” is a negative message)
• promote the problem-solving benefits of technology, as facilitator: cotent, not solution
• active CS (student) group run by females
• casual class supervision should ensure at least one female supervisor where there are multiple supervisors
• where is “IT Without Borders” to do the equivalent of Engineers Without Borders
• education in class behaviour about “men behaving badly.” Teaching conclusive behaviour, gender, diversity, international