Women Who Design the Web Survey: 2007 Results - Part I
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.
I personally know more female web designers than male and, in fact, I ended up partnering with one of them to start Object Adjective.
For this reason, I decided to conduct my own small industry survey, Women Who Design the Web, to highlight a cross section of personal experiences, by women working in web design and development.
The first Women Who Design the Web Survey was conducted from May 4, 2007 to October 22, 2007. Over the next weeks (possibly months), I will share some of these insights and personal experiences. Though many of the responses I got were predictable, some were not and the stories paint a very interesting picture.
Below, are the findings to the general questions I asked in this survey.
In addition to these more general questions, participants were asked open questions about their experiences working in web design and development, whether they felt web design was perceived as a masculine industry and what they thought could be done to improve and balance diversity within the community.
These findings, as well as a study into the findings of A List Apart’s Web Deign Survey are to come.
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Eager to see the next installment!
Indeed Jeffrey. I’m still sifting through the evidence. At times it feels as though I’m in the midst of an exercise that will only uncover my own myopia.