Right now we are in a gender revolution. Walls are being torn down and norms are being challenged. At a baby shower when revealing the sex of the baby the most common sign are pink for girl and blue for boy. This country was built on the foundation that he is better than she, and the years following, the wave continued. In the designs we see in some of the most successful businesses are not only male dominated in work but also in design. According to today’s view men and women are becoming more and more equal. “Masculine and feminine definitions are being switched and obscured, but this essentially a human phenomenon.” (Suzanne Tick) Which is basically saying Men can do what females do women can do anything men can do.

Feminism is making its way back into the system and not in a minor way. Women are not empowering only women to stand up but also men to speak out. People are stepping away from labels.For example, college students do not fill in the gender part of forms when taking a test. Children in middle school are speaking out on how they feel and are getting their gender roles changed to unspecified, according to the article. Transgender citizens weren’t viewed as anyone, but soon changed when the CEO United Therapeutics was reported the highest paid female, although born male. (Suzanne Tick) As Martine ‘Apartheid of sex’ was published its become common to say five billion people equals five billion different sexual identities.

The “rules” of gender have all been broken and our view on a male and female have all been diminished to the anatomy instead of the ability and appearance. The only real thing that separate men and women are anatomy. Men look like women,and women look like me, women are taking on men roles in politics and in business, and men are becoming stay at home dads. In the Magazine article Making Bathrooms More ‘Accommodating’ it talks about the challenge of transgender and the bathroom. Big companies like google have taken note of the changes and adopted gender neutral and unisex bathrooms. (Suzanne Tick) In a time where gender is only anatomy, how do we design a bathroom fit for everyone, and accepted by everyone. Although,we have unisex bathrooms they are one staled and lockable, which makes them private bathrooms not public.This is not like the Disability act that required everyone to follow a certain guide line. You can’t add rules and regulations to fix this problem. It is just the beginning of the gender neutral design era but this issue can’t wait. During this human phenomenon of post gender world how do we accept someone physically but not socially? I agree with the article; designing in a gender neutral environment is more challenging because you don’t have guide lines, nor support or understanding from certain groups. It took many years, protests and wars for things like race and sexuality to be accepted and to make rules protecting it.

His & Hers: Designing for a Post-Gender Society” by Suzanne Tick