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Discover resources and opportunities available to support women in STEM across their careers and promote gender equity.
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Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women by Perez is a bestseller exploring the gender biases inherent in the modern world.
National
Fresh Science
Ongoing
Fresh Science is a national competition helping early-career researchers find, and then share, their stories of discovery.
The program takes up-and-coming researchers with no media experience and turns them into spokespeople for science, giving them a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training and a public event in their home state.
National
FameLab
Ongoing
FameLab is a live science communication competition that aims to discover charismatic early career scientists who can inspire people to see the world from new perspectives. It is run annually in Australia and in over 25 countries across the world.
If you think you can explain a scientific concept to a general audience, in just three minutes, FameLab's the competition for you! You could become the new face of science, represent your country at the FameLab International final in the UK, and open doors to global opportunities in science communication.
VIC
BrainSTEM
BrainSTEM provides workshops, STEM challenges and mentoring to Victorian secondary school students.
Online
Could the COVID-19 lockdown solve one of the persistent barriers to gender equity in research?
Dr Ursula Sansom-Daly and A/Prof Caroline Ford provide comment on a potential silver lining of COVID19 for women and carers in STEM, changes to conference travel.
Online
An intersectionality walk, with structural change
SAGE ACT regional network has developed an action-based activity to allow others to better understand how intersectionality affects an individual’s engagement at work, and how identification and mitigation of structural barriers can change this. A resource pack (PDF or DOC), introductory video, slide deck and walk tracker are all available to download and use.
Online
Evaluating STEM Gender Equity Programs: A guide to effective program evaluation
The Office of the Women in STEM Ambassador has developed a new guide to evaluating STEM gender equity programs. The guide enables program owners to undertake self-evaluation that is consistent and comparable across Australia.
Tech Ready Women
Tech Ready Women Academy is a skills training platform and network that provides women with world class mentoring programs and content for personal growth and business innovation.
National
She Maps
She Maps offers online and in-school drone and geospatial training and events to help you empower your students with the skills of tomorrow.
She Codes
She Codes is a movement devoted to helping women just like you up their tech skills, and get into tech careers. Running events across Western Australia and Queensland.