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Gender Diversity Matters | A Conversation With Jacqui Loustau And Aby Swabey | Tech Done Different With Ted Harrington

Episode Summary

In this episode of Tech Done Different, you'll hear from two special guests: Jacquie Loustau, Founder of the Australian Women in Security Network and Aby Swabey, Publisher of Women in Magazine.

Episode Notes

In this episode of Tech Done Different, you'll hear from two special guests: Jacquie Loustau, Founder of the Australian Women in Security Network and Aby Swabey, Publisher of Women in Magazine.

You'll hear from not one but two (!) special guests: Jacquie Loustau, Founder of the Australian Women in Security Network and Aby Swabey, Publisher of Women in Security Magazine. You'll hear us explore the diversity and inclusion challenges in security and how to improve in this critical area.

You'll learn:

• why it can be daunting to feel different
• why diversity isn't just the right thing to do, it makes powerful business sense
• what attributes women bring to the team dynamic
• why gender diversity isn't just an infosec problem, it's across all tech
• when the attrition of quality candidates begins to happen and how to combat that
• why the barriers exist, and how to combat them
• why most job ads are an issue, and what to do about it
• why companies need to be more flexible

Guests
Jacqui Loustau, Founder of Australian Women in Security Network (@Source2C on Twitter)

Aby Swabey, Co-Founder Source2Create and Publisher of Women in Security Magazine (@CSO_Australia on Twitter)

Host
Ted Harrington

Resources

Learn more about what Jacqui is up to at: https://www.awsn.org.au/

Learn more about what Aby is up to at: https://source2create.com.au/

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