Potent quotables
When we are designing a world that is meant to work for everyone we need women in the room.
So is it humans who are murderous, or men?
The history of humanity. The history of art, literature and music. The history of evolution itself. All have been presented to us as objective facts. But the reality is, these facts have been lying to us. They have all been distorted by a failure to account for half of humanity.
Analysis of how gender affected support for Trump revealed that ‘the more hostile voters were toward women, the more likely they were to support Trump’. In fact, hostile sexism was nearly as good at predicting support for Trump as party identification.
When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default.
There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.
But a workplace predicated on the assumption that a worker can come into work every day, at times and locations that are wholly unrelated to the location or opening hours of schools, childcare centres, doctors and grocery stores, simply doesn’t work for women.
Lit review
RAGE.