Irish Architecture Career Tracker Survey (IACT), 2023

The Irish Architecture Career Tracker survey gathered over 680 completed questionnaires. The primary focus was to understand why people leave the profession of architecture, attitudes towards and perceptions of gender equality within the profession and the wider discipline, as well as sexism and discrimination. It includes items which look at the architecture as a profession and the occupations which come under its umbrella as a broader discipline i.e. it allows for individuals who are working in the broad field of architecture as well as registered architects. It includes items which examine work culture, such as long working hours, as well as standard measures of work-family conflict and work pressure, and subjective stress. It uses new measures of attitudes towards gender equity developed by the European Social Survey Round 11 ‘Gender in Contemporary Europe: Rethinking Equality and the Backlash’, developed by Banducci, et al 2020. These are the salience of gender equality policies, contemporary sexism (measure from Ambivalent Sexism Index (Glick and Fiske, 1996) ). It also includes items on experience of microaggressions, bullying, harassment and discrimination at work. It has items which ask about the intersection of gender and professional identity and the perceived impact of gender on career. The data does not include data from other collections, but the survey questionnaire used questions adapted from other surveys, in particular Eurobarometer gender equality surveys and the European Social Survey (ESS; O’Connell et al., 2010; Clark et al., 2012, 2013; European Commission and European Parliament, 2015, 2017; ESS, 2020; YesWePlan!, 2020). The survey ends with a set of questions on the importance of 34 factors in the decision to leave the professional practice of architecture.