Go Suncoast Girls!
In a male dominated industry such as IT, Suncoast Internet is proud of its fine ratio of girls to boys amongst its staff. Currently, it’s believed that only 15-20 percent of Australia’s IT workforce are women. In the UK it’s even lower.
While many women in IT find it to be rewarding and satisfying career, the reasons women give for leaving the industry are to do with age old inequalities such as work/life balance, wage and social discrimination.
But at Suncoast Internet, the fact is that 67 percent of the full time staff on site is women. That’s more than three times the national average! Recently joining the Suncoast team, programmer extraordinaire Megan Cotton from Megabits says “I’ve never worked in an environment where there was more than one other female programmer”.
The ladies at Suncoast Internet have a number of varied roles, including training, search engine optimisation, web design and development, as well as admin and sales.
With the news that there has been a staggering 51 percent decline in the number of women studying IT in Australia since 2001, it seems Suncoast Internet’s unusual staffing structure will remain unique for some time to come.
But while the girls are happy not to be discriminated against by men in the IT workplace for a change, spare a thought for those poor blokes. Professional copywriter Alan Lunday complains that he didn’t get the chance to choose his office uniform, unlike the girls who got the opportunity to try on several different kinds recently!
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