Women Love Tech (WLT) is proud to announce the launch of its new digital Community Hub. This platform is a place where members can live, learn, grow, and connect with each other, including the WLT sisterhood, mentors, coaches, brands, courses, content, and more.
The new WLT Community Hub will enable members to join for a fee of $10 per month and will specifically target growth both across Australia and globally in areas such as the USA, UK, and India.
Priced at $10 per month, the digital platform will accelerate the goal of supporting more women to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
“Women Love Tech launched over ten years ago and has a rich community of women, who are all poised and ready to start or accelerate their careers in technology and I am proud that we are going to be supporting these women,” says Robyn Foyster, Editor and Owner of Women Love Tech
“We have always supported women in tech by profiling female leaders in business and sharing stories that matter to women from diversity and inclusion to the prevalence of unconscious bias in AI. Now, through our flagship initiative this year we will launch our first Community Hub including Women Learn Tech, which has been designed to enable our community to connect and learn from leaders and experts in the tech industry. Everyone will be able to take part in both paid and free bite-sized tutorials at any time so that they can upskill, and improve their confidence.
“Along with our course programmes, our mentorship platform will enable our community to tap into the collective wisdom of our mentors and provide the opportunity for men or women to be a mentor. We need more women taking up roles in the tech industry and this is a gateway for women to get more involved.”
Women Love Tech is looking for key partnerships with companies and universities alike to come on this journey with us. We are also inviting future mentors to contact us on editor@womenlovetech.
Here in Australia, we have a serious tech skills shortage and yet we have a gender imbalance of women working in the STEM fields. In spite of this, the opportunities here for women are endless, not to mention well paid often with flexible hours.
Here are some not-so-fun facts:
Only 28% of people working in tech identify as women
Only 5% of CEOs of ASX 200 companies are women
Women founders got only 0.7% of start-up funding in 2022
And, just to ram home a painful reality, did you know it will take 136 years to close the gender pay gap?
“At Women Love Tech, we are trying to do something about those stats – and it motivates our every decision, because THIS story needs telling – and transforming! And we plan to do that through our new mentoring and video course platform,” adds Robyn.
“This initiative is coming late April – and already we are being inundated by those who are interested in in getting started and being part of our new Community Hub.”
About Women Love Tech
Women Love Tech launched ten years ago as an award-winning lifestyle technology blog. It has been empowering, entertaining and informing women about technology since 2012. We are a powerhouse. Think Mashable but for women.
We’ve won awards and our writers are finalists in the Samsung Lizzie's IT Journalism Awards every year and Women Love Tech is a 2024 Finalist for Best Video Content. We are also named in the top websites for women in technology sites every year.
Find out more on www.WomenLoveTech.com
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Women Love Tech announces plan to launch new mentoring platform and courses for women in tech
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More about Women Love Tech editor Robyn Foyster
A multi-award-winning journalist and editor and experienced executive, Robyn Foyster has successfully led multiple companies including her own media and tech businesses. She is the editor and owner of Women Love Tech, The Carousel and Game Changers.
A passionate advocate for diversity, with a strong track record of supporting and mentoring young women, Robyn is a 2023 Women Leading Tech Champion of Change finalist and Women Love Tech is a finalist for the 2024 Samsung Lizzie’s IT Journalism Awards.
A regular speaker on TV, radio and podcasts, Robyn spoke on two panels for SXSW Sydney in 2023. She has been a judge for the Telstra Business Awards for 7 years.
Voted one of B&T's 30 Most Powerful Women In Media, Robyn was Publisher and Editor of Australia's three biggest flagship magazines - The Weekly, Woman's Day and New Idea and a Seven Network Executive.
Her career has taken her from Sydney where she began as a copy girl at Sydney's News Ltd whilst completing a BA in Arts and Government at Sydney University, to London, LA and Auckland.
After 16 years abroad, Robyn returned to Sydney as a media executive and was Editor-in-Chief of the country's biggest selling magazine, The Australian Women's Weekly.
Robyn has proven skills and experience in understanding customers, creating new products and revenue streams, building brands and driving organisational change in sectors impacted by technological and digital disruption. She launched a thought leadership agency called InProfile in 2020.
As Group Publisher at Bauer, she ran Woman's Day, Good Health, Grazia and the Hearst Magazine Group - Harper’s BAZAAR, Cosmopolitan and Madison.
Voted Editor of the Year at the 2007 Magazine of the Year Award and under her helm The Weekly won the inaugural 2008 Australian Magazine Award for Australia's best mass market magazine and New Idea won the MPA's coveted Magazine of the Year award and Best News Magazine.
At age 23, she moved to London and worked on newspapers as a feature writer at Today. In this highly competitive world, she was responsible for numerous front-page stories on racism, environment and fraudulent trade practices in Britain. She also worked in LA as the US correspondent for Ch 4’s Big Breakfast and later ran the entertainment desk for GMTV, Britain’s biggest breakfast TV show. She put the Spice Girls on TV for the first time.
She has covered the Oscars, Cannes Film Festival, BAFTA's and Eurovision Song Contest. Robyn completed graduate cadetship at AAP Reuters and was the first female racing reporter in Australia.
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Contact details:
Robyn Foyster, robyn@womenlovetech.com
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