Gender Balance in Lecture Series: We are nowhere. Bartlett, Berlage, Mendrisio, ETHZ #fail, MIT, Tübingen #parity
You know we like nothing but confronting our colleagues and their pernicious sexism by checking the gender balance at lecture series. This semester, again, looks bad.
Some institutions are obviously not even trying.
We would also encourage you to forward this survey to the incriminated institution, pushing, asking, demanding CHANGE. Die Architektin always mails the institutions, trying to make them aware of the problem. Usually there are no answers. Sometimes Berlage says they tried. We would like to see pledges from our colleagues, in line with Owen’s Pledge.
It’s not hard to get more women at panels, you just have to want it. As a good anti-example, the University of Tübingen put an all female panel together. There seems to be no magic involved. The Gendered Conference Campaign has some great advice.
Just like our philosophy colleagues, we also believe that:
“All-male events and volumes help to perpetuate the stereotyping of (ARCHITECTURE) as male. This in turn to contributes to implicit bias against women in (ARCHITECTURE), which very likely leads even those genuinely committed to gender equality to evaluate women’s contributions as less good than men’s. (It may also in some cases be caused by implicit bias, which means that women’s names will leap less easily to mind than men’s.)”
TRY HARDER, FOLKS!
My favorite victims this time around:
Bartlett: International Lecture Series 3/7 #fail with Odile Decq, Farshid Moussavi, Peggy Deamer
The Berlage: 3.5/11 #fail with Assemble collective, Francesca Hughes, Johanna Hartmann, Tatiana Bilbao.
D-Arch ETH
- Department: 1/4 #fail with Marianne Burkhalter
- Chair Angélil: 4/10 #fail with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Silke Helfrich, Dr. Tanja Herdt, Something Fantastic (Elena Schütz) , Ilka Ruby, Amica Dall
- Studio Swinnen: 0/4 #fail
- NSL Colloquium Autumn 2016: 5/10 #parity with Monika Streule, Lindsay Sawyer, Naomi Hanakata, Tammy Kit Ping Wong, Anne Kockelkorn
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Keynote Speakers 0/5Paper Committee: 3/41The AAG conference is worth a note, because it would appear that the bias in inviting speakers happens at the paper selection level.
Mendrisio 2/7 #fail with Dr Lizzy Van Leeuwen, Dr. Marlyne Sahakian
MIT Architecture 4/8 #parity with Jing Liu (SO–IL), Debora Mesa, Rania Ghosn, Nomeda Urbonas, Maria Alessandra Segantini, Elora Hardy, Ines Weizman
Princeton SoA, 1.5/8 #fail with Florencia Pita and Jackilin Hah Bloom, and Regine Leibinger
A non architecture university, Tübingen 6/6 #overparity, bravo! 🙂
Manuelle Gautrand, Sheila Sri Prakash, Rozana Montiel, Melkan Gürsel, Annabelle Selldorf, Helena Weber
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