Women's Work

Smagorinsky, Zoss, and Reed (2008) do a great job of describing and validating as challenging and instructive the composing processes involved in interior design. As they say, how ironic that a subject so open-ended, complex, and requiring such a synthesis of knowledge from different areas to come together and produce an actual product is so often marginalized and discredited as “women’s work”! Meanwhile, we continue to judge students by their scores on standardized multiple choice tests which have no real relevance? Hmmm.