Chicks in Design?
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- lowimpakt0
"a 2010 Design Council survey shows a 60/40 male/female gender ratio in the industry - although crucially it’s unclear what the ratio is at more senior levels.
But anecdotally it’s clear that whatever the situation with open discrimination, a more invidious inequality is still rife, both in design and in other sectors.
One of the main issues is pay. A report from the Chartered Management Institute last year showed that, on average, male manager-level employees were paid more than £10 500 more than their female counterparts. It seems almost unthinkable that nearly 40 years after the Equal Pay Act came into force in the UK, the pay divide could be this wide."
- Figures can be misleading. If women take time off for children they earn less. At least I hope that is the case.Chimp
- mekk0
They become pregnant as soon as they have finished school.
- sine0
- cannonball19780
"Chicks" should answer this question, not men.
- pango0
More male pilot in the world. why is that?
- pango0
There are more female models in the world. why is that?
- Yeah?fredddddd
- yeah?pango
- ..because women are nicer to look at than men. Duh.mikotondria3
- fredddddd0
21% here:
http://www.pentagram.com/partner…
- fredddddd0
Maybe chicks are too busy with Pinterest to talk about design online?
Or too busy having busy jobs?
- sea_sea0
yea, and qbn does not equal the whole design world. lol
- monospaced0
It seems like the design world is mostly male because you're an idiot.
- autoflavour0
i remember once upon a time there were women on QBN.. and Newstoday..
I guess we scared them off
- and when i mean we, i mean you Freddddautoflavour
- they moved on.albums
- albums knowsFax_Benson
- so does Pepperidge Farmalbums
- they're managing projects nowscarabin
- so by moved on, you mean grew up?autoflavour
- no one quits the qoob completely, they're all still here, lurking.sea_sea
- Oops.fredddddd
- noneck0
QBN is an interesting example, actually. This place is a remarkably hostile environment for women.
- pango0
dunno man. more woman cooks than man yet most of the famouse chef are male. you can't explain that!
- Fax_Benson0
rampant misogyny?
- has to be one reason for the lack of ladies hereFax_Benson
- Are you Julia Gillard?BusterBoy
- get OUT!!GeorgesIV
- pango0
- *masturbates over flat designscarabin
- [ceiling cats Moldero...]mikotondria3
- scarabin0
dude, have you ever tried designing in your kitchen?
- Or bed?fredddddd
- While nursing?monospaced
- Or menstruating?fredddddd
- but you can make funny pictures while breastfeeding, right?coldarchon
- breastfeeding = nursingmonospaced
- lolmarindsgn
- fredddddd
Art schools are about 70% female and that includes design classes. Any class I ever took had mostly chicks in it.
So why does it seem most of the design world is male? Why is this board ~99% dudes?
You'd think it would be at least 50/50?????????????