Competition: win a copy of Women Design by Libby Sellers
In this competition, Dezeen readers have the chance to win one of five copies of a book profiling 21 inspirational female architects and designers. More
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Female architects host flash mob at Venice Architecture Biennale to call for gender equality
Architects Odile Decq, Farshid Moussavi and Manuelle Gautrand were part of a protest that took place in Venice today, to fight against discrimination in architecture. More
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Odile Decq calls for female architects to "fight against harassment, against discrimination"
French architect Odile Decq has urged people to join her in a demonstration today at the Venice Architecture Biennale, to demand gender equality in architecture. More
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Egg Collective fills New York showroom with pieces by female designers
New York studio Egg Collective has followed up its Designing Women exhibition last year with a second edition for this year's NYCxDesign festival, featuring furniture and homeware pieces from a new roster of female designers. More
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Africa's largest architecture practice pledges to move the needle on gender diversity
Boogertman + Partners, Africa's largest architecture practice, has promised to tackle its gender pay gap in response to Dezeen's Move the Needle initiative. More
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Brands "ask for you because you're a woman and not dead" says Cecilie Manz
Furniture brands who work with female designers shouldn't expect them to only produce feminine objects, according to Danish designer Cecilie Manz. More
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UK's biggest architecture firms reveal gender-pay disparity
Hawkins\Brown has emerged as the only one of the UK's largest architecture practices with a gender pay gap better than the country average. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals gender pay gap in staff salaries
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed that it pays women 19.6 per cent less than men, based on the median of its staff salaries. More
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"We don't need to be patronised by architectural safe zones"
Drives to tackle discrimination and harassment of women, like the London Festival of Architecture's Elephant Campaign and Dezeen's Move the Needle initiative, are failing to increase diversity and damaging society, argues Vicky Richardson. More
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Design awards recruit more women to move away from "old-white-guy" juries
International architecture and design awards programmes are striving to improve gender balance among judges, a survey conducted as part of our Move the Needle initiative has found. More
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10 impressive architecture projects designed by women
In light of International Women's Day, we've rounded up a series of architecture projects designed by women, from Odile Decq's bright-red bubble house to Amanda Levete's undulating MAAT museum. More
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"We can't make decisions by ticking boxes" says Pritzker Prize executive director
The Pritzker Architecture Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal have defended their diversity policies and addressed the reason why women make up just one per cent of the winners of the two leading architecture prizes combined. More
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Dezeen launches gender pay gap calculator to help tackle inequality in the workplace
What's your organisation's gender pay gap? We're created an online calculator to help you find out, as part of our Move the Needle initiative to tackle gender equality in architecture and design. More
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"The girls started asking why there weren't more women on the list of Pritzker Prize winners"
Teaching children about architecture opened Mary Tooley's eyes to the lack of recognition given to female architects. In this letter she wrote to Dezeen in response to our Move the Needle initiative, she explains what she is doing about it. More
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Iconic logos replaced with female figures for International Women's Day
Male characters featured in the Monopoly, Pringles and Dreamworks logos have been swapped for women by organisation Creative Equals, as a way of tackling "unconscious bias" in the media. More
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Sandra Barclay wins Woman Architect of the Year 2018 award
Barclay & Crousse co-founder Sandra Barclay has become the seventh recipient of the Woman Architect of the Year prize, while Gabinete de Arquitectura partner Gloria Cabral has been named emerging female architect. More
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Equality is good for the bottom line, say speakers at Dezeen and RIBA's diversity event
Better diversity means better business for architects and designers, according to speakers at the Must do Better talk hosted by Dezeen and RIBA last night. More
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Design conferences tackle gender equality following protests and bad headlines
Leading architecture and design conferences have promised to improve gender balance but admit they are struggling to secure enough female speakers, according to a survey conducted for our Move the Needle initiative. More
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Foster + Partners reveals gender pay gap in staff salaries
Foster + Partners has revealed that it pays women 10.5 per cent less per hour than men, based on the median of its staff's salaries. More
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Help us Move the Needle on gender equality
This week we launch an initiative to improve gender equality in architecture and design, to coincide with International Women's Day. We're calling on readers everywhere to help us Move the Needle. More
