INDIVIDUAL TEMPERATURE CONTROL. Yes, women generally prefer warmer temperatures to men, but we also have varying hormonal issues that may contribute to some women preferring it cooler - especially pregnancy, breastfeeding, and menopause.
And women recovering from breast cancer treatment. I have a friend who has to have hormone suppression because of the type of cancer she had and her body temperature fluctuates wildly. She works a lot from home now because in part because she can control her comfort level with temperature/amount of clothing.
I don’t work in an office, but it seems to me that pink and naked lady wallpaper are not the answers to address the female comfort level in male designed offices 🤦🏻♀️
There's a woman-focused co-working space here; I've gone to a couple networking meet-ups there. It looks a lot like other co-working spaces. The biggest differences - on-site drop-in childcare and extra security, especially after dark when people are walking to their cars.
These seem like things that are actually geared towards making women’s lives better! A lot of the stuff in this article seems superficial, like primping rooms, while the childcare and security seem to address real issues.
wonder how the rest of the 25% of architects who are women feel about this. If I were a female architect I'd be pissed as hell at this lady for making us look like simpering idiots
I get that we are moving to more open office spaces since we have noise-canceling headphones/phones and more telecommuting (good for environment), so I have resigned myself that I will end in one someday, but I was just looking at some other (famous) women architect designs for fun and there are ways to do open design with women in mind without just stark cold spaces (figuratively and literally cold ).
If we want to design spaces that are light-inviting and airy feeling, but also private enough we need innovative designs like these buildings where you can have a private space with and still allow light to travel through. I know there are a lot of women out there who can do this and without resorting to Barbie colors to attract adult women.
I mean, even just uniform low dividers (or lockers in this case) and nooks, like the one to the right, that aren't open to everyone is a start: