2020: Gutting the APS Created a Diversity Problem

In the early 2000’s, I remember sitting around conference tables with other government chief information officers and technologists. Female CIOs headed up Immigration, Centrelink, CSIRO, Industry, Finance and AGIMO (a predecessor of Digital Transformation Agency) to name a few.

Yes, the ‘women in tech pipeline’ statistics and all the trends were against us at that time as well, but it really wasn’t unusual to have this diversity at the top.

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Article published in InnovationAus on 15 December 2020.

PDF of article can be found here.