"By highlighting the problems faced by women in architecture, are we making it worse""
Campaigning for equality in architecture is at its peak, says Christine Murray, so why is the number of women in the profession still going down"
It's possible that all the talk about women in architecture is making things worse. I realise that's a radical statement coming from me.
Since founding the Women in Architecture survey and awards back in 2012 to raise awareness about gender inequality in architecture, I've written an acreage of editorial on the pay gap and sex discrimination. Sitting in The Savoy for the seventh annual Women in Architecture Awards last week, watching Liz Diller pick up the Jane Drew Prize lifetime achievement award, it felt like we'd reached peak woke.
So imagine my shock to learn, after five years of steady improvement, that the number of women in architecture has dropped by a staggering 10.3 per cent, according to statistics released by the UK government's Creative Industries report by the Department for Culture Media and Sport. Stranger still, architecture is the only creative industry that lost women as a percentage. Compare that to film and television, and the tech industry, which both posted a 10 per cent gain in women employed.
Have we put women off architecture as a career choice"
The UK is not the only country facing a drop. Poland and Croatia also faced a five per cent fall in women architects, according to the Architects Council of Europe. The percentage of female architects is not tracked annually in either Australia or the...
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