Gender Equity By Design
A seasoned group of female designers will tackle questions about work-life balance and the challenges they have faced throughout their careers that have impacted their successes in life and the design business. Join Nancy Perkins, FIDSA, as she speaks with Betty Baugh, FIDSA, Katherine Bennett and Pattie Moore, FIDSA.
Moderator: Nancy Perkins, FIDSA
Nancy Perkins is principal of Perkins Design Ltd., an industrial design consultancy for consumer products, mass transit and industrial equipment. Her corporate experience includes Sears, Jarden Consumer Solutions and Dallas Lighthouse for the Blind, a nonprofit employing people who are blind. She is an expert witness and a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was awarded an IDSA Fellowship in 1993.
Betty Baugh, FIDSA
Betty Baugh has an AA degree from Stephens College in Columbia, MO, later transferring to the New York State School of Industrial Ceramic Design at Alfred University, NY and earning her BFA in Industrial Design. In 1986, she relocated to Mill Valley, CA, and formed a one-person independent consultancy, Betty Baugh Designer. She created designs for Libbey Glass, L.E. Smith Glass, Grainware, Villeroy & Boch, Wilton Armetale, USG and Progressive International. She became very active in IDSA ultimately serving as President in 2001. She has juried the IDEO competition and taught at California College of Design and The Academy of Arts. The Cooper-Hewitt featured her Blenko hand blown decanter. She was listed by IDSA as one of the 50 most notable members.
Katherine Bennett
Katherine Bennett has been a design educator at Art Center College of Design since 1988. She has taught at both the Pasadena and European campuses and spoken at UCLA, USC Graduate School of Business, the Design Management Institute conference on education at Stanford University, as well as for IDSA. She was IDSA education vice president and an IDSA board member from 2005 to 2006 term. She has designed office and residential furniture, laboratory and business equipment, gas stations, kitchen tools and other consumer projects for Don Chadwick, Saul Bass, Hauser, Henry Dreyfuss Associates and her own consulting practice.
Pattie Moore, FIDSA
Patricia Moore, PhD, FIDSA, is an internationally renowned designer, gerontologist and leading authority on consumer lifespan behaviors. For three years, Moore traveled throughout the US and Canada disguised as elder women, with her body altered to simulate the normal sensory changes associated with aging. ID magazine included Moore as one of the world’s 40 most socially conscious designers. In 2000, a consortium of news editors and organizations listed Moore as one of the 100 most important women in America. ABC World News featured her as one of 50 Americans Defining the New Millennium.
