Gender Equity Starts at School
The more we talk about gender inequity in architecture, the more disturbing the conversation. As Despina Stratigakos, author of the book Where Are the Women Architects" has said: ?The simplistic explanation, trotted out for decades, that women leave practice to have babies doesn?t hold up to scrutiny.? Instead, ?it is the presence of significant subtle (and sometimes overt) attitudes and biases that both exclude women, and disproportionately lead them to abandon architecture as a profession.?
The banner response of GSD students at Harvard to the “Shitty Men in Architecture” list. Photo via twitter.com/missmaliaaaa
Earlier this year, the Architects? Journal published the results of a poll of nearly 1,500 United Kingdom-based professionals, revealing that one in seven female respondents reported having experienced sexual harassment in the past year. Then, the New York Times reported allegations of sexual misconduct against Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier, who then took a six-month leave from his practice. And then someone created the ?Shitty Architecture Men? list, an open spreadsheet of alleged misconduct. It was aimed at the profession, but it collected multiple citations of sexism, harassment, bullying, intimidation and assault in architecture schools, including the Harvard Graduate School of Design. That prompted some GSD students to hang banners to actively seek out a change of culture. Just last month, GSD female faculty signed a letter ...
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