Monica Castillo is a data analyst at the Workplace Gender Equality, an Australian Government statutory agency (WGEA) responsible for promoting and improving gender equality in Australian workplaces. She holds a Bachelor of Social Research and Policy at the University of New South Wales. She first dabbled into data after completing a statistics course during her last year of university, where she fell in love with the idea of using data to inform decision making in policy, research, and service delivery. Since then, Monica has nearly 4 years’ experience working as a data professional in government, public health, and social services. More recently, Monica has been working with gender data at WGEA and she has played a pivotal part in analysing and creating algorithms that report on the latest gender pay gap figures. Data from the ABS shows that women are paid 14 per cent less than men, where the average woman takes home $25K less than her male counterpart. Learn more about gender pay gap data here: https://www.wgea.gov.au/publications/australias-gender-pay-gap-statistics. This podcast that showcases an inspirational woman who delves deeper into the lessons learned on her journey to becoming a data analyst. Monica talks about the importance of learning something new, being curious and exploring what gems of knowledge can be found in the depths of the data. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcastillo18/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.