Tag: Gender equity
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 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 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
Lynda Simmons discusses how the hours spent ‘working’ and ‘caring’ are divided and how that might affect architecture practices.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
Lee Hillam reflects on the long-hours culture in architecture and asks: What is the real cost of this exploitative practice?
‘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
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 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.
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
A new register of Australian women in the built environment intends to make them “much more active in the public culture of architecture.”
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 shortlisted for RIBA award
Royal Institute of British Architects shortlists Australian gender equity organization for President’s Award for Research.
Crowdfunding equity in architecture
Not-for-profit organization Parlour has launched a crowdfunding campaign to secure its future.
NSW architects commit to equitable workplaces
The Australian Institute of Architects NSW Chapter launches a new gender equity program.
Gender equity in architecture: What can we do?
Naomi Stead and Justine Clark outline the programs and tools for a more equitable profession.