Tag: Gender equity

None of the architecture or landscape architecture practice with 100 or more employees had gender pay gaps within the WGEA target range of between -5 and +5 percent.
Industry News | Linda Cheng | 27 Feb 2024

Architecture firms’ gender pay gaps revealed

Australia’s Workplace Gender Equity Agency published gender pay gap data for more than 5,000 private employers with 100 or more employees for 2022-23, which includes architecture and landscape architecture firms.

Parlour office holders (L–R): Naomi Stead, Alison Cleary, Gill Matthewson, Susie Ashworth, Justine Clark, Julie Willis, Sarah Lynn Rees.
Industry News | Jude Ellison | 7 Mar 2022

Parlour announces new supporter program

A new supporter program, the Parlour Collective, will create long-term funding security for Parlour and professional opportunities for its supporters.

Parlour office holders (L–R): Naomi Stead, Alison Cleary, Gill Matthewson, Susie Ashworth, Justine Clark, Julie Willis, Sarah Lynn Rees.

Parlour launches work and wellbeing survey

Parlour’s survey seeks to understand the demographics, work place environments and wellbeing of people in the profession.

Devaluing care: The issue of unpaid hours
Discussion | Lynda Simmons | 31 Jan 2020

Devaluing care: The issue of unpaid hours

Lynda Simmons discusses how the hours spent ‘working’ and ‘caring’ are divided and how that might affect architecture practices.

Swinburne University of Technology’s Hawthorn campus.

Swinburne University introduces women-only architecture professorship

Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology has begun recruiting for an architecture professorial role that is open only to applicants who identify as women.

Gill Matthewson presents the pay gap data.
Industry News | Patrick Hunn | 2 Nov 2018

Parlour census analysis finds mixed progress in gender equity

A newly published analysis of Australian Census data has identified both encouraging and worrying trends in terms of womens’ participation in Australian architecture.

Amy Muir and Shelley Penn at Parlour’s Melbourne Autumn Salon 2017.
Discussion | Gill Matthewson | 17 Oct 2018

Gender equity needed ‘in every nook and cranny of architecture,’ census analysis shows

In 2012, Parlour published its first and devastating statistical portrayal of the loss of women from the architecture profession and their sparseness at senior levels. What progress has been made since then?

Amy Muir and Shelley Penn at Parlour’s Melbourne Autumn Salon 2017.
Discussion | Justine Clark | 7 Mar 2018

Parlour and gender equity in Australian architecture: Where to from here?

Parlour editor Justine Clark reflects on the organization’s development since the publication of research in 2014 that laid bare the state of gender inequity in Australian architecture, turns an eye to the future, and explains how you can help.

Does the term “woman architect” render women in architecture as second-class citizens in the business or could it be used as an act of political activism to dramatize inequity?
Discussion | Dr Karen Burns | 29 May 2017

Who wants to be a ‘woman architect’?

Does the term “woman architect” render women in architecture as second-class citizens in the business or could it be used as an act of political activism to dramatize inequity? Karen Burns discusses.

Long hours: Go hard or go home!
Discussion | Lee Hillam | 18 Apr 2017

Long hours: Go hard or go home!

Lee Hillam reflects on the long-hours culture in architecture and asks: What is the real cost of this exploitative practice?

The WikiD Guide to Wikipedia Editing is available in both English and German.
Industry News | Patrick Hunn | 8 Mar 2017

‘Edit-a-thon’ to address lack of representation for women architects on Wikipedia

Parlour will host its annual Wikipedia ‘edit-a-thon’ at the NGV for the third time on 18 March.

Women in architecture: Leadership
Discussion | Emma Williamson | 8 Mar 2017

Women in architecture: Leadership

How can generosity and flexibility effect change in the architecture profession’s notoriously rigid workplace culture? Emma Williamson considers the obstacles women architects face on the road to the top.

Catherine Baudet.

Catherine Baudet awarded inaugural Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize

Queensland architect Catherine Baudet has been awarded the inaugural Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize by the Australian Institute of Architects.

Catherine Baudet.

2017 Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize

Queensland architect Catherine Baudet has been awarded the inaugural Paula Whitman Leadership in Gender Equity Prize by the Australian Institute of Architects.

Register of Australian women architects launched
Industry News | Linda Cheng | 2 Dec 2016

Register of Australian women architects launched

A new register of Australian women in the built environment intends to make them “much more active in the public culture of architecture.”

A WikiD Guide to Wikipedia Editing has been developed and is available in both English and German.
Industry News | Sian Johnson | 23 Nov 2015

Wikipedia boost for women architects

Number of Australian women architects on Wikipedia has increased from 10 to 65 due to the efforts of the WikiD project.

Parlour's Guides to Equitable Practice provide information on topics such as pay equity, long-hours culture, career progression and recruitment.
Industry News | Sian Johnson | 23 Jul 2015

Parlour shortlisted for RIBA award

Royal Institute of British Architects shortlists Australian gender equity organization for President’s Award for Research.

Crowdfunding equity in architecture
Industry News | Sian Johnson | 20 May 2015

Crowdfunding equity in architecture

Not-for-profit organization Parlour has launched a crowdfunding campaign to secure its future.

Workers at BVN's Sydney studio. BVN is among the first signatories to the new Champions of Change Charter.

NSW architects commit to equitable workplaces

The Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter launches a new gender equity program.

How do we achieve a more equitable profession for all?
Discussion | 27 Nov 2014

Gender equity in architecture: What can we do?

Naomi Stead and Justine Clark outline the programs and tools for a more equitable profession.

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