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Item Restricted Gender-Integrated Design : The Significance of Gender-Integrated Design : Deconstruction of Discriminatory conditions in Domestic Interiors(2021) Knapp, Melina Alexandra; bachelor thesis in Interior Design / Interior ArchitectureMACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : Access, use, and creation of spaces are fundamentally related to status and power which in the Western society are strongly determined by gender. Architecture and therefore interior architecture as well are fields created by men, for men. This results in creation of spaces that reinforce and reflect the ways we see gender in the society, and especially the discriminatory aspects of gender even in spaces like domestic interiors which are traditionally seen as feminine (Sparke 2004, 72). Just like the words 'mankind' and 'man' are used to refer to the entire human population even though they linguistically and therefore also subconsciously only refer to to the traditionally power-holding half of the population (Weisman 1994, 2), interiors are created through male-based standards and are not neutral in terms of gender equality. Especially the traditional gender roles and the division of unpaid labor confining women to their houses has been an issue actively discussed in the feminist movement after the Second World War. According to a UN Women report, women do three quarters of all unpaid labor in the house and this workload has only increased during the Covid-19 pandemic. For example in Germany during the pandemic women spent 6,2 hours more per week on childcare than men ("Whose Time to Care: Unpaid Care and Domestic Work during Covid-19" 2020). This conversation has lead to the creation of building projects with a feminist perspective trying to challenge the way roles and responsibilities are taken in the household. Discovering the benefits from integrating feminist thinking and the acknowledgement of gender in the design process would in the following decades lead to increasing creation of spaces which encourage equality and social well-being