Architecture doesn’t identify by gender and chairs don’t differentiate by chromosome, so why are we still banging on about ‘women in design’ when enrolment numbers in the bastions of aesthetic learning now mostly slant in their favour?
“Because it continues to be a struggle and the struggle is real,” says Melbourne designer and mother of two Mardi Doherty who, while conceding that creativity is no longer predicated on the male hero, must contend with the inflexible biology of it all in an exclusively female practice. “We’ve learnt a lot about respect
