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Hi Lubomir Yesterday I showed two prospective students around the Design Department where I work. I took them first into the textile workshop (where I teach). There were around 30 female students working in there (there are currently no males on our Textile Innovations degree). I went from there to the Games Design studio where there were 30 or 40 male students working (there are currently 3 female students on our games design degree, although I should explain that there are now two female tutors on the team). Gendered thinking was almost palpable as we moved from one room to the next. Can't let you get away with your ideology of the ungendered nature of professionalism. It makes professionalism sound very homogenous and unappealing. Cheers Lubomir, I know that your provocation is only an intellectual challenge. :) Fiona www.a-brand.co.uk >>> "Lubomir S. Popov" <[log in to unmask]> 01/19/08 3:31 pm >>> Hi Teena, Please do not make provocations. You know how much contentious is this subject matter. This can be the beginning of a major gender revolution! I am a proponent of non-genderized science and professions. In the professions, there should be no men and women. Men and women are in the bars and in bed. In the professions we have doctors, engineers, architects, planners, not men and women. If someone performs with his/her gender thinking on the workplace, that is too bad. That is an indication that this person is not professionalized. Professional thinking should be unisex and specific only to the profession. When professionalized, men and women have to give up their streetwise gender thinking in favor of professional thinking. Anything other than that indicates lack of professionalization. There are a lot of myths in the world. Some of them are about dumb blondies. Others are about caring women. And so on. The bottom line: there is too much ideology introduced in today's world and sadly, in the professions. All kinds of myths are disseminated in order to obtain a better position in the process of acquiring resources. I can talk a lot about this, but this is enough. Best wishes Teena, I know that your provocation is only an intellectual challenge. Lubomir At 04:44 PM 1/18/2008, teena clerke wrote: >Dear All, > >I have a question for the list: > >Q: If aliens were to abduct all the male design researchers from >this world, how do you think the field of design research will develop? > >Teena