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Article 1 Gender pay differences – Times Online
“Women in full-time work in the UK are paid, on average, 17.2 per cent less then men.”
“Women who work full time are cheated out of around £330,000 over the course of their lifetime” Margaret Prosser
“Men were more likely to see themselves as very ambitious, while for women job satisfaction, being valued by their employer and doing a socially useful job were often more important.”
Two thirds take career breaks
Part time workers ten to be happier than full time peers. Men’s higher salaries carried with them other disadvantages.
Motherhood penalty and outdated perceptions of female roles.
Women caring for children are often forced o take on low-paying or part-time jobs. That’s not a free choice.
Article 2 – NOTHING
Article 3 – Volvo and women NOT MUCH
Article 4 – brand packaging to appeal to women
Article 5 – Co–designing with women
Article 6 –NOTHING
Article 7 – Interactive flash community
Article 8 – Why do some women think it’s ok to rely on men to pay their way? –Daily Mail
“For too long women have been trading down skills for flexibility, and have been willing to take on jobs for which they are overqualified and paid less. They’ve not had the confidence to say I want the same job as before but I want it part-time.”
“When I was in my 20s, I heard about an advertising agency, which placed an ad in a paper for a creative position. The salary was attractive but there was almost no responses from women candidates. Then a bright spark at the ad agency, had the idea of re-advertising the exact same position but with a lower salary. Dozens of women immediately replied.”
Article 10 – Female entrepreneurs to get advice and money for promising ideas – Daily Mail Online
Women business centres offering advice for women who typically lack confidence to launch their own business.
“Many new mothers are forced to quit work because their employer refused to be flexible about their maternity leave.”
“New mothers are frequently forced to take low-paid jobs for which they are hugely overqualified because they cannot find better part-time work.”
Article 13 – women are more into sustainable purchasing
Article 15 – AGDU
“There was an incredibly obvious gender imbalance in the speakers. The first 8 guest speakers in a row were men. Women designers and design educators were seemingly invisible. In the end, there were 23 men and only 8 women guest speakers at the seminar. This is in contrast to the latest (1996) Australian census figures which show that 6,000 of the 13,000 graphic designers in Australia are women. In even starker contrast, 60% of the 105 undergraduate graphic design students at the Tasmanian School of Art at Hobart in 1998 are female and only 40% are male.” The Future of Design Education, Art 15 CHAP 2
Article 16 – women and game design
Article 17 – women and the craft movement, book binding, publishing
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Article 19 – Women in business ask: are women more ethical?
“most women aren’t as driven as men climb the corporate ladder and, consequently, less fearful to point out ethical wrongdoings.
Article 20-23 women and ethical business awards
Article 26 – women miss out on top advertising jobs – Guardian online
“women continue to make up approximately half the workforce but account for only 15.1% of managing directors or chief executives.” Maybe they don’t want to take on the roles which bring unsociable working hours
Article 27 – This advertising boss thinks women male ‘crap’ executives. Its seems he is not alone – Guardian online
“Women don't make it to the top because they don't deserve to,' he's reported to have said. 'They're crap.' The problem, in his view, was that they 'wimp out and go and suckle something'.
French, 61, later clarified his position. 'What I did say was to be a creative director requires 100 per cent commitment. People who have babies to look after can't do that,' he said”
“Research shows that 80 per cent of all purchasing decisions in Britain are made by women; yet 83 per cent of all 'creatives' are men. This is worse than it was 30 years ago.” Guardian (Art 27) CHAP 2
'Men create the standards by which ads are judged and then go round handing out awards to each other,' says Alps. 'The thing is that they just don't value the kinds of ads that women write and that women like.' Guardian (art 27) CHAP 2
“Why don't female creatives rise to the top? They get fed up with the dickheads, the heartbreaking choices, the insane juggling that makes you get up and vomit every morning from the stress ... until, finally, they say to hell with it.”
'Whenever I see a really good ad, I'm impressed because I know that the person who made it is not just very talented but also incredibly pushy. My trouble was that if a suit came along and said, "You've got to put ten seconds of a product shot in" I'd end up doing it. The successful ones, and maybe this is something that men are better at, say, "Get out of my office, arsehole".Sohhie Campbell
Article 30 – one graphic designer in a new generation of feminism, yale
“One of the Guerilla Girls’ most famous campaigns, in 1989, featured Ingres’s Odalisque wearing a gorilla mask and flanking the text: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female.”
Shelia DeBrettville coined the term “feminist design” in the 1970’s
Article 31 – WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? WHERE ARE THE LINKS?
“A more accurate variation on this theme acknowledges that there are truckloads of busy, competent women in design (or technology), and asks why women’s achievements in these fields go grotesquely under-reported and under-recognized. That is a fair and important question but we are not here to answer it.“
Article 32 – Speak up
“So my question is, for such a seemingly progressive field, why is there such a persistent lack of recognition?
Just glance through the AIGA medalists list if you don’t agree. Can it be attributed to societal discrimination in general? I think that’s far too easy an answer. Perhaps men just have bigger egos.”
“It's funny, because in Mexico graphic design is viewed as a "girlie" profession. In my class, only two men graduated (one of them me) compared to 24 women.
But who are the ones who get recognized? Men.”
Article 33 – non existent design: women and the creation of type
“Out of the 478 font designers represented by the Linotype type foundry only 59 (12.3%) are female.”
“A brief survey of the gender of invited speakers at recent international typographic conferences such as ATypI, TypeCon, and Typo Berlin also discloses strikingly unequal numbers: for example, ATypI (2003, 2004) and TypeCon (2003, 2004) reveal an average of 15 percent female contributors (Figure 1). Out of the total of 68 invited presenters at the Typo Berlin (2004) only 5 were female.”
“What measures could be taken to improve gender inequality in the field of typography in the 21st century? What would be the value of more women designing type and contributing to typography? What forms of unconscious resistance are there that hold women back from feeling part of type design and typographic culture?”
Article 34 – Why so few women web designers?
“Coming out of college we had a relatively healthy balance of male / female graduates, all of whom would have spent at least three of the four years deep in web development yet I can only think of 3 or 4 of the female side who are now actively involved in the industry.”
Article 38 – cant work out where itrs from
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Article 39 –NUS
Article 40 – Review of Women designers n the USA -1900-2000
Article 41 – sex, women and questions
Article 42 – Jen Husted profile
Article 43 – The Graphic Design Glass Ceiling
“Why do you – all three of you – suppose there are so few female graphic designers – or at least so few ‘superstar’ graphic designers? Is there a glass ceiling in graphic design?”
Journal and Magazines
Grafik magazine heroines special
“ I am embarrassed to admit that I struggle to think of someone when approached to write about a female design hero.” Matt Willey”
“Name and Graphic design Hero that is a woman? I’m sorry to say I don’t have one. I know there have been, and are, a number of good female desingers out there, but most of us have yet to achieve any real longevity or fame. Where are all the great woman designers? If you look at fine art, photography, fashion and music the list is endless.” Lisa Smith
Journal 4 – Careers by Design: A Business Guide for Graphic Designers
“For reasons not completely clear, graphic design is overwhelmingly female for those under forty years old. Employers will need to accommodate women who want a family and a career. While there is a slow movement towards flexible hours (flextime) and maternity leave (for men too), at the time of writing this it is strictly token. Talented women will not want to accept positions not offering maternity leave. Several have indicated the desire for four-day workweeks.”
“Women are not always paid as much as men. Sometimes the cause falls at the feet of the women. They simply do not ask for as much money. This may be caused by a lack of security or lack of aggressive negotiation skills.”
Journal 5 – The Hilary Factor
“women have created, perhaps inadvertently, a parallel industry of accessible talent. Many practice as independent designers operating out of their homes or a sole proprietors of small firms often with one or assistants. Others tend to cluster at the production level in firms as freelancers or on staff often delegated the work of ‘design bees’ “
“this is not a women’s issue. It is a design issue. The need for flexible work schedules, family leave and feasible child-care, affects both male and female designers but are particularly critical to women who have traditionally been the caregivers.”
“A new hierarchy is forming that is technology- rather than gender-based; the distinction between what Scher refers to as the “planners and the “doers”….this involved in conceptual thinking, problem solving and creative strategies and those who execute routine production tasks, design’s equivalent to the minimum-wage burger-flipping McJob.” Not really graphic design
“In professional situations women favor inclusive web-like organizational patterns over traditional hierarchical structures”
“ the context of design has shifted from the Reagan/Bush years to larger social/environmental concerns which has lead to the necessity of seeking women designers” Jean Gardner, professor of environmental design at Parsons in New York
“I never realised how important it was to see women who have successfully placed themselves in business, talk about how they got there. It’s is especially beneficial for foreign students who don’t get the chance to talk to other women designers in their own countries” SharynThomspn
Journal 6- Are there enough women in design? Discuss.. Computer Arts magazine
“When we started up it was really unusual to have two female directors, and we were constantly being asked to come and talk about women in design. We were never just asked about good design, but rather invited along a s a female voice and female opinion on design.” Sophie Thomas, Thomas Matthews
“ so I don’t think it’s a question of women not wanting to get back to working at a senior level, but rather the demands of senior-level design jobs are actively preventing them from doing so” Jonathan Lindon, Source Personnel
“Generally in big art degrees it’s quite equal. You look at undergraduate classes and competitions and awards, and the gender split is around 50-50, but then suddenly you think, where are all those women going? They go into the industry and then just fizzle out.” Sophie Thomas, Thomas Matthews
I probably had about 10 interivews when I first graduated, and lots of people said hey were interviewing me because I was a female in the industry. I certainly think it’s opened more doors for me than ever held me back.”
“But it’s only when you start reading and finding out about the history of graphic design in particular that you realise just how male-dominated it’s been” Sophie Thomas, Thomas Matthews
Journal 7 – Women in Design- Revisited
“Today, women designer at the peak of their career are often confronted with choices about work and family that men simply do not deal with. Young women must look ahead now (not later) to their goals of starting their businesses and starting their families – it is a double hit that men do not experience in the same way.” Sidie and Sonderegger
“Because women largely tend to be the consumers and they are responsible for most purchases in the household, they understand what other women consumers want in terms of marketing and design.”Sidie and Sonderegger
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Journal 8 - The Graphic Glass Ceiling – Graphicfeminsim.blogspot. Paula Scher
“how I envy my male partners who are invited to speak based on their achievements ad prestige as opposed to their sex. I cannot separate my own achievements from being a women”
“I don’t believe that pursuing this course while happening to be a woman is particularly special, nor do I believe there should be a special standard for women. I haven’t “broken” into boys’ club. I am merely following the path of a life in design at a time when’s are opening for women, not merely because they are women, but because they are successfully following that path.”
“ A profession that has been long dominated by men is changing. There are simply more women. There are more women who are terrific designers, more women running their own businesses, more women corporate executives, more women changing the scale of things and appearing out of scale in the process.
There are also more underpaid women, more women juggling careers and motherhood, more women who feel squeezed out in a bad economy, more women going to art school and going nowhere afterwards, and more women who are resentful because of their lack of success “because they are women.”
“Change doesn’t come in one great thump. It comes one by one, and it looks kind of funny and then it doesn’t.”
Journal 9 – Slient majority Graphic Feminism blog
“If you flick through the design history books, you’ll notice that pretty much all the “great designers” have something in common. They’re men.”
“A few gifted women have smashed through the glass ceiling, but they are the exception to the rule…… in fact, the tiny number of female designers at the top isn’t at all representative of the profession at large, which is now dominated by women. The same goes for design education. Some 64 percent of last year’s design undergraduates at the Rhode Island School of Design were female.”
I have taught many talented young women and tired like hell to push them, but most were too shy, emotional, cautious and lacked self-confidence and ambition”
“If a prospective client calls Pentagram and doesn’t ask for a partner by name, I see them thinking, Why did I get the woman? When I walk in” Scher says. Even the women do it”
“But are the most famous designs, male or female, always the best ones? That’s another story.”
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