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AILA JOINS FIGHT FOR GENDER EQUITY IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) has launched a gender equity project that will investigate the participation of women in landscape architecture. The project has been in development since June 2017 and is being led by AILA’s board and CEO in collaboration with Parlour and Monash XYX Lab. The 2017 AILA salary survey found that while there was equal participation in the profession, men were overrepresented in high-income roles and there was a full-time gender pay gap of about $253 per week. The first stage of the project, to be completed by September

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