Change isn't happening fast enough for women in architecture says Jeanne Gang, who suggests that all firms should be set a target to close their gender pay gap.
Speaking to Dezeen at the end of 2018, the Studio Gang founder said that more needs to be done to root out sexism in architecture, and that pay equality is the obvious place to start.
"This is the number one way you can show respect to women in your workforce, to pay them equally for the equal work that they're doing," she told Dezeen.
"Put a little more pressure" to close the pay gap
Gang, who founded her Chicago-based practice in 1997, said she was "totally shocked" to discover a gender pay gap in her firm last year.
After closing the "small" gap in one round of pay increases, she wrote an article for Fast Company  ? with the headline Architecture's great injustice, according to Jeanne Gang ? calling on other practice leaders to follow suit.
But now she thinks polite extortions in the press haven't gone far enough. She suggests setting architects a target similar to the 2030 Challenge, which calls for architects to work towards only carbon-neutral buildings in just over a decade.
"We should start to think about asking people to declare if they have closed their pay gap, the same way we declare the 2030 challenge for environment for example," Gang said.
"Maybe that would put a little more pressure to close the gap."
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