Sexism in the architecture profession leads this week's comments update, following outrage at the AIA's lack of female speakers at the upcoming Orlando conference and research showing widening pay disparity between men and women.
Females MIA at AIA: readers have been responding to protests from US architects at the lack of gender diversity at the American Institute of Architects' upcoming annual conference in Orlando.
"One in seven keynotes are women" Donald Trump's cabinet has better gender representation," wrote Steven.
But some commenters rejected the idea that the line-up is sexist. "Shouldn't the focus be on what is being said in the keynote"" wrote regular commenter H-J. "I personally don't give a damn if an inspiring talk is given by a male or female speaker." One reader pointed out that the AIA has added several female speakers since the story was published.
"I sure hope they have a black, a Latino, and an Asian keynote speaker. Or I'm not going!" said Dwellsokc. But Aaron had a stinging comeback:

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Where's my money: the debate was carried over to a story on the 2016 Women in Architecture survey, which found that men are paid more than women across the board and pay disparity is increasing.
"Unequal outcome is not evidence of unequal opportunity," argued a user called Lollipops.
"If the gender pay gap was real, why would any men be employed" The evil...