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Design consultant Virginia Santy set out to create an office space built specifically for women, flipping the script on the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways that workplaces and cities still fail them. The results were striking: greater productivity, deeper collaboration and an environment where women felt genuinely valued, leading her to ask a simple question: What…
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@asmilingguppy
April 26, 2026 at 2:13 pm
Women now have more w-2 jobs then men, are more educated then men, are more educators than men, have more vacation time on average, are incarcerated less, are not eligible for the draft and have lower rates of self… ending? The fact that institutions are still perpetuating a patriarchy narrative that includes “how does your butt feel in a chair” in 2026 is wild.
@beebopbop3074
April 26, 2026 at 2:15 pm
Instead of asking what has the world built for women, we should be asking what have women built for the world?
@KittyPepperPhd
April 26, 2026 at 3:52 pm
What have women built ‘for the world’? Every single human. Out of what? Their own bodies. They also invented cloth and weaving. Women,who were the main gatherers of the nomadic “hunter-gatherers” of pre-history, began planting seeds along their travel routes so that their group would have food available when they came back that way, which also makes them the originators of agriculture.
@ClockworkAvatar
April 26, 2026 at 6:23 pm
@KittyPepperPhda biological necessity is building anything
@niccolom
April 26, 2026 at 7:32 pm
They produced all the men who built everything.
So let’s not disparage them this way. Our argument should not come from this direction.
@joshfactor1
April 26, 2026 at 2:21 pm
what are you talking about? if you’re not able to literally open a door, i think that’s your own fault; say what you want about men but doors are not biased against anyone
@stevefox646
April 26, 2026 at 2:38 pm
“The world wasn’t built for women; it was literally built for men” is a brutally dishonest line wrapped in a righteous tone. It’s biased because it reduces centuries of messy, multi‑layered history into a simple, one‑sided villain‑and‑victim story. It’s false because it ignores that societies, economies, technologies, and cultures were shaped by countless forces—class, colonization, capitalism, religion, geography, and yes, women themselves—not just some shadowy “men designed everything” conspiracy. Saying the world was “literally built for men” isn’t a fact; it’s an emotional weapon used to shut down nuance, silence counter‑questions, and pretend complex problems can be blamed on a single gender.
@vortbio
April 26, 2026 at 4:42 pm
Exactly right.
@mmokhtabad
April 26, 2026 at 2:44 pm
Holly cow! More than what we have?!!!
@DS-pe8tt
April 26, 2026 at 3:06 pm
Thank you for showing the inequality for women in terms of what tangibly needs to be fixed. Yes value women.
@Montereycounty3322
April 26, 2026 at 3:17 pm
I’m also for women equality! We need to start drafting women into the military! ❤
@kerfbear8022
April 26, 2026 at 3:13 pm
The world may not be built for women, but at least all the kitchens are🎉
@Entertainment-w1f9c
April 26, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Women should put on hard hats and build their own city. Do all the work themselves
@Entertainment-w1f9c
April 26, 2026 at 4:14 pm
Careers advice is dominated by women. Why don’t these women advise young women to become builders so they can build this great city for women?
@Entertainment-w1f9c
April 26, 2026 at 4:18 pm
Is that canned applause
@RTXBRINGER
April 26, 2026 at 4:52 pm
But what if you can’t have kids…how different is anyone anyway?! I am out of a job by a woman who physically threatened me in a workplace. When men can be labeled as victim (all men) then so can women.
@AliothSpectranet
April 26, 2026 at 5:40 pm
Well explained design theory here! Hopefully it reaches the people that matter.
@MikeyHB
April 26, 2026 at 5:54 pm
A place safe for women is a thriving place for all humankind. I’ve seen the dismissive comments born of mysogyny and it’s a weakness. Women should be safe, equitable and equal, then we would all gain so much more.
@niccolom
April 26, 2026 at 7:28 pm
I agree 100%.
But the question is, why and how do they feel unsafe?
@gategatorade
April 26, 2026 at 6:19 pm
Instead of framing this as a gender issue, we should talk about Universal Design. The goal shouldn’t be to build for ‘women,’ but to build for the full spectrum of human capabilities. I think it’s kind of shortsighted/outdated.
@ClockworkAvatar
April 26, 2026 at 6:24 pm
ted talks used to be interesting and informative, in fact you can look back at the videos and see exactly where the shift happened.
@pixie_laluna
April 26, 2026 at 6:29 pm
Doors open easily for men ? Jesus. What else ? jar bottles are easier to open by men ? That is the saddest audience of all time, nobody is remotely interested or inspired by what she said. What a clown talk.
I bet TED will disable comment section soon.
@niccolom
April 26, 2026 at 6:53 pm
I recognize that women (or people of any gender) are intellectually equivalent to men.
But what’s discussed in this video is proof about why things are as it is right now.
Design work for the most efficient gender is the most efficient way to design things.
This is simply an “inconvenient fact.” It’s simply not cost effective and decreases efficiency overall.
Future of work: design offices for optimal efficiency, and let other genders work remotely. This way you can have best of both worlds.
And the gender pay gap: it isn’t about the value of the work produced between different genders — they are the same. It’s about the difference in the COST of the work produced being very different. And this TED Talk proves it.
@ZionistWorldOrder
April 26, 2026 at 8:55 pm
😂😂😂
@CanyonF
April 26, 2026 at 7:05 pm
Women can’t open doors? Children open doors all the time. My cat used to open doors lol. And places of business usually have buttons to open them automatically for the disabled
@SimplerThoughts1975
April 26, 2026 at 7:20 pm
I’m imagining a standard intersection with a four-way stop that is also a roundabout.
@toddmortimer6720
April 26, 2026 at 7:26 pm
I’d argue the world isn’t build for most men either. What she doesn’t see, is that the current economy needs to go. There is no point patching it up with little fixes for inclusion… we don’t need to be stimulating an economy when most of that is pushing people of any gender to work harder and see less of their family. It’s hard to see these people as ambassadors of change, but just hungry for a bigger slice of pie that spoiled many decades ago. Time for us all to get back to what’s important
@caraboska
April 26, 2026 at 7:32 pm
Amen! This is something that needs to be talked about a lot more ❤
@pepepistola9258
April 26, 2026 at 7:45 pm
WTF?
@pierluigit.1525
April 26, 2026 at 8:44 pm
And there goes my subscription, what a world we live in
@ZionistWorldOrder
April 26, 2026 at 8:55 pm
😂😂😂😂😂😂