Archie Bagnall
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Thank you for taking the time to respond to the piece Shachar. A couple of your comments are in direct response to Debbie Millman’s contribution to the piece so I’m going to leave those and focus on the points you make from the rest of the post.

Sorry the source of the data wasn’t clear. All data is taken from the AIGA x Google 2016 Design Census, which is footnoted on all figures and referenced in the post title. Data was collected over a two week period in December 2016 and has been open sourced if you want to take a deeper look here: https://github.com/ABagnall/DesignCensus2016 (this is my fork of the AIGA repo).

I would be cautious to conclude that because women have a choice to “ invest more time in other places, instead of the office” that it denies the existence of a gender pay-gap. The reality is that our culture presents these choices to women far more often than it does men. The statistics you share from the Pew Center of Research study helpfully confirm that the decision to significantly reduce works hours in order to care for families is being made by more women than men. It would be interesting to explore further why men don’t make the same decision as often.

The social factors that contribute to the gap are one of the key topics that keep this discussion open. I’d definitely recommend listening to the Freakanomics episode linked in my opening paragraph that opens up these issues more.

Thanks again.

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    Archie Bagnall

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    Sr. Experience Designer ML/AI at Adobe. President Emeritus, AIGA Orange County