ABSTRACT
Influenced by a larger body of research in disciplines such as politics, business, and political science, this chapter focuses on studies that reveal influences of gender on deliberative bodies, and how society’s broader socialisation often greatly predetermines power relations. It discusses some of the key findings by several researchers and applies these ideas to the discipline of architecture, proposing possibilities for moving toward a more representative and equitable discipline. Researchers in political science and psychology have proven real world implications for experiments that test the influence of gender on group interaction, deliberation, and value systems. Neoliberalism, as Fraser argues, has exploited second wave feminism to the result that women’s liberation has become directly connected to ‘the engine of capitalist accumulation’. Neoliberalism, as Nancy Fraser argues, has exploited second wave feminism to the result that women’s liberation has become directly connected to ‘the engine of capitalist accumulation’.
