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There is one thing you’re sure to learn when you conduct a survey: just how many things you did wrong. My first attempt at conducting a survey of women web designers, made clear (sometimes embarrassingly so), just how many things I hadn’t thought through very well. It’s been a learning experience.

Back in late April of this year, A List Apart began the first truly comprehensive survey of people who make websites. This, following criticism in the media about the lack of gender diversity at web conferences.

I took an immediate interest in both the initial criticism over gender disparity and the response by A List Apart to conduct the Web Design Survey. One of the primary reasons I took such an interest in this, was because my personal experience was to the contrary.

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Just last month The Guardian reported on melting ice caps in Greenland triggering earthquakes. Last Friday it was announced that, Al Gore and the UN climate change panel will share a 2007 Nobel peace prize for raising awareness about climate change.

We know about the problem. We know something needs to be done. So, how can you help, as a web designer ? (rips open shirt, revealing blue spandex top with the letters “E” and “W” in prominent red and yellow)

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Every so often you come across something that conveys a point so well, you have to stop what you are doing and take note. So when we received this months WIRED and supplemental Geekipedia, I was very excited.

So what’s wrong with this picture?

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