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Unconforming observes the world’s systems and services through a women-centric lens — identifying the ways in which we fail to serve women today, and how we might begin to meet their needs.
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Manmade: Can Women ‘Trust’ Science?

Manmade: Can Women ‘Trust’ Science?

How science and sexism come together to place enormous pressure on women
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Getting Started With Women-Centric Design—
Where’s my breast pocket? It’s not about the pocket

Where’s my breast pocket? It’s not about the pocket

Once upon a time, a man focused on a women’s focused project forgot about women
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Why we fail to design for women—the dangers of debiasing

Why we fail to design for women—the dangers of debiasing

Why do we fail to design for women? The dangers of de-biasing, and missed opportunities to close the gender data gap
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Designing Beyond the 0.2% International Women’s Day Moment

Designing Beyond the 0.2% International Women’s Day Moment

Often, we design to meet a moment, but this hurts women, and frankly everyone else
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The Organisational Gender Footprint

The Organisational Gender Footprint

Your organisational gender footprint goes way beyond DEI.
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The Archive—
Leading with Curiosity to get Women-Centric

Leading with Curiosity to get Women-Centric

Staying curious and allowing space to be proven wrong is key to understanding women’s needs
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Root Barriers Between Money and Women

Root Barriers Between Money and Women

Women’s exclusion experiences might be different depending on their contexts, but it’s possible they are stemming from the same root cause.
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Mansi Gupta
Safety Centred Design

Safety Centred Design

Feeling safe is a fundamental human need, but is often overlooked—often affecting women more
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Mansi Gupta
The Ripple Effect Consequences hidden underneath the “Gender-Neutrality” Guise

The Ripple Effect Consequences hidden underneath the “Gender-Neutrality” Guise

Designing under the guise of “gender-neutrality” while catering to the default male creates unintended consequences for women
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Watering the [gender] plant everyday

Watering the [gender] plant everyday

What if everyone wore women-centric glasses?
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Role of Community Gone Wrong

Role of Community Gone Wrong

Are we doing enough to acknowledge the consequences of our design solutions?
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Business Case for Women: Bla Bla Bla

Business Case for Women: Bla Bla Bla

How the business case for women harms them
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10 Women-Centric Resources

10 Women-Centric Resources

A starter-list of women-centric resources.
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Sexy Unicorns

Sexy Unicorns

How the practicality of women’s invention hurts them.
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What matters to women — 5 learnings

What matters to women — 5 learnings

5 insights compiled from our research, events, and all of you — here’s what makes a difference for women!
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Design for Women → Design for Men

Design for Women → Design for Men

What will it take for men to start Designing for Women?
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The multi-edged sword of social proof among women

The multi-edged sword of social proof among women

For better or for worse, does social proof play a bigger role in women’s lives?
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Designing cross-sex experiences

Designing cross-sex experiences

How women relate to each other and how they relate to men must play a greater role in design
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That navigation loop keeping women “in their place”

That navigation loop keeping women “in their place”

Women, in navigating the world as it is, experience the “i don’t fit” loop that keeps the status quo alive.
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Invisible Barriers

Invisible Barriers

Women face more barriers, and invisible ones at that, than men
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Numbers for Sexist Doubters

Numbers for Sexist Doubters

A list for you, to send to anyone who believes gender inequality is a thing of the past
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Sport excludes women because it is also a reflection of society

Sport excludes women because it is also a reflection of society

How might we design sport to include women?
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Formative Years

Formative Years

If we truly want to design for women, we must get in the game early
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Is GDP sexist? What’s that got to do with gender?

Is GDP sexist? What’s that got to do with gender?

If we truly want to create impact, we must take a gender-lens all the time
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Supporting “Women in X” with”X for Women”

Supporting “Women in X” with”X for Women”

“Women in…” movements have been successful at getting women a seat at the table, but we are still far from achieving gender equality.
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Safe Spaces for Women

Safe Spaces for Women

Safe Spaces are a key design principle to successfully Design for Women. How might we embed safety into any experience women might engage…
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Musings of an Indian granddaughter

Musings of an Indian granddaughter

What can a person — who might be blind to the gaps in gender, caste, race & religion — teach me?
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Maternity leave or maternity work?

Maternity leave or maternity work?

How might we might prevent maternity leave from being perceived as a vacation? How might we better design coming back to work?
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Aversion to the word rape, rather than the act

Aversion to the word rape, rather than the act

Rape or force? Or coercion? Or a joke? What the use of the word tells us about the way we view and allow for sexual harassment.
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