Dear Teena, First, I would like to thank you for the elaboration. In fact, if you read the conversation, I also talked about new social structures that can affect different professions such as design, and I tried to say that having "equal numbers" is not the same concept (since I am not knowledgeable in this issue, the way that I guided the discussion might bring some misunderstandings). However, as you can see when we are talking about a number of factors which can change a profession like design, the most attractive factor seems to be the issue of "gender" (If I used the term in a right way here). Of course, I am going to right an article about "emerging design" and perhaps I should be aware that some social trends can be more important the others! Thank you again for giving us this informative overview. Bijan ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------