Good thread (even though I’ve just been lurking so far)
Wanted to share that we have a new woman hire this Jan as a Jr ID, the first in the couple years I’ve been here AND she’s doing well in the field so far (Alto Sewing Machine) It’s a great thing for diversity in the studio…
Just to mention, in most of my roles in design teams, there have been Sr Industrial Designers that have been women (frog, IBM, etc). They were all very talented and sometimes gave the impression of having had to have been ‘tough enough’ to handle navigating male dominated industries, especially the more mature woman designer at IBM who had started back when they were dressing up mainframes and it was all suits and ties.