Dezeen reporter Eleanor Gibson has selected seven women designers on the rise in Canada, following a Toronto exhibition that spotlighted the country's female talent to challenge inequality in the industry.
Titled Capacity, the annual exhibition featured designs solely by Canadian women during the Toronto Offsite Design Festival (TODO) in January. When the show first launched eight years ago, it was among the first to celebrate women in the design industry.
"We realised that there weren't a lot of venues for women in design to be recognised and that it is a very male-dominated field," Capacity co-founder Katherine Morley told Dezeen.
In the wake of a growing awareness of gender equality in both design and architecture, Morley said the ambition was "more relevant than ever" for this year's edition. We've selected some of the designers from the show and a few other Canadian women whose work we admire, coinciding with the launch of our initiative to improve diversity called Move the Needle and this week's International Women's Day.
Read on for our list of seven Canadian female designers to watch:

Zoë Mowat
A cabinet painted using sumi ink, red dye and two shades of Japanese indigo is among the recent works by Zoë Mowat ? a furniture and homeware designer based in Montreal.
Mowat's work has featured in a number of international exhibitions, including one that reinterpreted objects from the American Shaker movement and a showcase of the inaugural col...