Design awards improve gender balance of their judging panels

International architecture and design awards programmes have improved the gender balance of their judging panels this year, although men still outnumber women, according to a survey conducted by Dezeen following our Move the Needle initiative.
Of the eight awards programmes we surveyed for our Move the Needle campaign in 2018 – set up to promote gender equality in architecture and design – all have either increased or maintained the proportion of women on their judging panels in the