International Women's Day was the big story on Dezeen this week. We launched our Move the Needle initiative, to improve gender equality, and the Woman Architect of the Year 2018 award was announced.
Sandra Barclay became the seventh recipient of the Woman Architect of the Year prize, winning for her work on The Museo de Sitio Julio C Tello archaeology museum in Peru.
Help us Move the Needle on gender equality
To coincide with International Women's Day, Dezeen announced Move the Needle, an initiative focused on addressing the gender imbalance in architecture and design with the help of readers.
Foster + Partners became the first major global architecture studio to commit to change, after revealing the gender pay gap in its staff salaries earlier in the week. Iconic logos replaced with female figures for International Women's Day
We covered a number of projects marking International Women's Day this week, including a range of iconic logos with male figures reimagined as women and Brewdog's pink-branded "beer for girls", which was labelled irresponsible on social media.
Meanwhile, speakers at Dezeen and RIBA's Must do Better talk on diversity highlighted the link between an inclusive and diverse workforce and the success of businesses.
Balkrishna Doshi wins Pritzker Prize 2018
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi was named as 2018 laureate of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most illustrious award.
Eva Franch i Gilabert was elected director of the Architectural Asso...