Terry Olaes
I Used to be the [H] News Guy
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Surveys sponsored by the Australian government show that girls are not entering the IT and communications industries due to the careers being “boring.” Experts believe that this perception will limit girls’ abilities to have equal job opportunities in the future since “a big proportion of future job opportunities will be involved in the IT field.”
''Increasingly jobs will require high-order IT skills,'' she says. ''If we have a generation of young women who have been excluded from that knowledge then there is going to be a stark gender divide which will be quite problematic.''