Gathering evidence and understanding. Material and analysis from Parlour’s two major surveys, ‘Where Do All the Women Go?’ ‘… And What About the men?’, along with useful material from surveys conducted elsewhere.
Part 1 – who responded?
The first in a series of posts exploring the preliminary findings of the survey Work & Wellbeing – Australian architecture & the COVID-19 pandemic.
Work & wellbeing survey
The Work & Wellbeing Survey will help us understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the people of Australian architecture and the built environment. This will increase knowledge of changes in work arrangements and circumstances, which new aspects are valued, and what people would like to take forward into the workplaces of the future.
Shock horror statistics
What do the recent AR Women in Architecture surveys really mean? Gill Matthewson digs into the stats and finds that some of the drama evaporates on close inspection.
Does motherhood + architecture = no career?
Sandra Kaji O’Grady examines the ‘proverbial elephant in the room’: the impact of children on women’s architecture careers.
Not just a “women’s problem”
With long hours, low pay and rigid schedules, is architecture's workplace culture sustainable for anyone? Julie Willis analyses some of the discursive responses to the Parlour surveys.
Where do all the women go?
Justine Clark provides a short overview of the results of Parlour surveys Where Do All the Women Go? and "And What About the Men?", first published in the AA Dossier on Gender Equity.
Why do women leave?
Karen Burns examines the Parlour survey responses to understand why women leave the profession.
… And what about the men?
Now it is the men's turn. Who are they and what do they do? How are their roles and experiences similar to women's and how are they different? If you are a man involved in Australian architecture please fill out our second survey.
Angie the architect meets Rosie the riveter
Are unlicensed women working in architecture the 'expendable proletariat'? Gill Matthewson looks at the lastest American Institute of Architects survey of “firm characteristics”.
Survey no. 1: Where do all the women go?
Who are you? Where are you? What do you do? Parlour's first survey aimed to give a more nuanced picture of the women of Australian architecture.
