In the UK, design is still largely a man’s job
Is the design sector really still an all-boys club? A new report from the UK Design Council implies as much.
The Design Economy: The People, Places and Economic Value, published by the London-based charity this week, found that 77% of the country’s estimated 1.6 million designers identify as male—an imbalance that has persisted since 2016. The report’s authors consulted data from the UK Office for National Statistics and workforce sites like the O-Net labor database. They also polled 1,300 UK-based designers, party to account for transgender or non-binary respondents that the publicly available data don’t account for. In the survey, 2% identified as non-binary and 0.8% as transgender.
While the 77% number is alarming, understanding the Design Council’s findings requires digging into the nuance.
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