Specialist recruitment agency ClicksIT says a recent study it undertook shows continuing low participation rates in the IT industry, with the proportion of women candidates remaining steady at 23% for the past five years.
According to Clicks IT managing director Ben Wood, the recruitment firm's study into gender balance in key IT verticals is in line with stats from the Australian Government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency on lower participation rates for women, and which reports that women comprise 49.7% of all employees in Australia.
And, of this group of women, 45% are working in casual or part-time roles, nearly half are working in small businesses with fewer than 250 employees, while just 2.7% are working for large organisations of 5,000+ employees.
“These lower participation rates are supported by our results. Since 2013, our data has shown the proportion of women candidates has remained steady at 23," Wood says.
"With regards to the IT sector, the most closely aligned Industry Grouping data available, the Computer System Design & Related Services subgroup, shows that 25.3% of workers are women."
{loadposition peter}Wood says Clicks wants to partner with businesses and organisations to achieve greater gender equity in the IT workforce.
The Clicks study looks at data from 30,000 Australian job applicants since 2012 and is grouped into high-level technology skillsets.