DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-044-3-0027

WOMAN AND DESIGN

Hynek Maňák¹, Ludvika Kanická¹, Dominik Horák¹

¹ Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech republic

The generally assumed lower proportion of women in technical fields is due to a historical development full of gender stereotypes and persistent anxieties. The proportion of women studying design at LDF Mendel has long been around 80%. At the Department of Design and Furniture, the technical difficulty of the content of the study programme has been discussed with regard to this high proportion of women, and the subjects of mathematics, physics and geometry have been reintroduced into the study programme. At the same time, higher requirements were set for knowledge in the areas of mechanical and physical properties of materials, furniture design and dimensioning and production technology. The defended final theses of the students prove that women are able to process these works with the high technical complexity required by this level of education. The study thus creates a high prerequisite for women's further career development.

Klíčová slova: study of furniture design, woman, gender stereotypes, female role models, technical fields, professional career of women

stránky: 27-34, online: 2025