Design awards Move the Needle with a better gender balance on juries

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