Sweden needs more avant-garde design, according to curator Paola Bjäringer who has brought together eight women designers for an experimental Stockholm Design Week exhibition. More about Misschiefs exhibition presents "a more punk side of Swedish design"
Scottish architect Kate Macintosh has been awarded this year's Jane Drew Prize in recognition of her contribution to elevating the profile of women in architecture. More about Kate Macintosh awarded 2021 Jane Drew Prize for women in architecture
David Adjaye's gold sketch of multifaith complex The Abrahamic Family House and Mark Foster Gage's satirical plan for a Trump presidential library are among works for sale in an auction fundraising to support black women in architecture school. More about David Adjaye, Forensic Architecture and Daniel Libeskind donate works to support black women in architecture school
Feminist collective Rebel Architette has created the Women Architects World Map as a tool to "detox" architecture from its dependence on "boys' clubs". More about "No more excuses for male-only panels" says Rebel Architette
Women's collective Part W has selected six women that it believes are deserving of winning the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, to help address the gender imbalance of past winners. More about Six women architects that "deserve to win the RIBA Royal Gold Medal"
The Pratt Institute has launched an archival project that pays tribute to women in architecture. Following a celebratory dinner party held in March, the school's dean of architecture Harriet Harriss explains why projects like the Mistresses Archive are vital to achieve gender parity in the profession. More about "We have a way to go to reach gender parity, but it's not without hope"
Cities haven't been designed to suit the lives of women, according to British writer Caroline Criado Perez, whose book Invisible Women argues that much architecture and design does not work properly for females. More about Urban planning is "really very biased against women" says Caroline Criado Perez
Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect, has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize 2020 for raising the profile of women in architecture. More about Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari wins the Jane Drew Prize 2020
Charlotte and Clementine Fiell's book, Women in Design, highlights what made figures like Apple icon designer Susan Kare and architect Zaha Hadid revolutionary. The authors pick five women from the book who transformed design. More about Five female trailblazers who changed the field of design
Leading and emerging women working in architecture and construction discussed the experience of working in both fields at a talk held in Knauf's London showroom. More about Watch our talk with Knauf about women in architecture
Jane Hall's new title Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women features 180 buildings by female architects. Here she picks out eight designers from the book and explains why women in the profession deserve more recognition for their work. More about Giving credit to female architects is a "necessary political act" says author of book on buildings by women
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, are the first all-woman pair to be awarded the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. More about Grafton Architects wins 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Architecture and design collective Edit has designed a vacuum cleaner that requires three people to operate as a feminist thought experiment to draw attention to women's unwaged domestic labour. More about Gross Domestic Product hoover needs three people to operate it
As one of a few female CEOs in the design industry, Jessica Walsh, founder of creative agency &Walsh, has faced criticism from women as well as men. In this interview, she tells Dezeen how she has tackled it. More about "A lot of the hate I got in the design world was from other women", says Jessica Walsh
This collection of cloth and metal-wire garments by Brazilian fashion designer Karoline Vitto finds beauty in the bulges of flesh that women are encouraged to cover up. More about Karoline Vitto's garments accentuate the fat rolls women are told to hide
Nike has redesigned the women's floor of its flagship shop in London, introducing plus-size and para-sport mannequins for its sportswear displays. More about Nike introduces plus-size and para-sport mannequins to London store
Woman-only member's club Allbright has opened a venue in London's Mayfair with work exclusively by female artists across its five floors. More about Allbright opens Mayfair club with all-female art on the walls
An exhibition at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands celebrates 100 years of universal voting rights in the country. Co-curator Egge Knol picks five objects that tell the story. More about Struggle! 100 Years of Women's Suffrage exhibition curator picks five highlights
The Royal Institute of British Architects has issued new guidelines on discrimination as new data shows the gender pay gap remains above 15 per cent at UK architecture firms. More about UK architects must do more to close gender pay gap says RIBA president
International architecture and design awards programmes have improved the gender balance of their judging panels this year, although men still outnumber women, according to a survey conducted by Dezeen following our Move the Needle initiative. More about Design awards improve gender balance of their judging panels