How to design workplaces & cities for women | Virginia Santy | TEDxMileHigh

[@yvonnesmith6152]

I’m a woman….worked in healthcare all my life and I have never seen my workplace as neither male nor female specific. This type of stupidity spilling out of one woman should NOT be applied to all women. Her demands are bordering on ridiculousness (I’m the one whose freezing out my male colleagues AND men do shuffle car seats as well)

[@billyburton123]

The door grip thing she's complaining about is weird, because there should be a button for handicap people first, which then solves the grip problem, but not in this video no, apparently women have it so hard that they need to be catered over the handicap. I'm fine with being courteous to those who are impaired, but this emphasis on design for women? Really? Try not having your legs work and see how much the world is designed in mind for those with working legs

[@stevec9972]

I can't wait to see the results of this mythical city designed by/for and built by women. 😅

[@Mattisttam]

If a man were to do this on stage and present this as a solution. He would be socially banished to exile, demoralized to a point of apologizing, and taking a 3 month long course on socially acceptable topics and guidelines.

[@triple_sec0]

I’ve never met a man who apologized.

[@Mattisttam]

@@triple_sec0 that sounds like a personal issue

[@vintagemxer1846]

yea this is pretty bad

[@imdavidbaby]

Somebody had to say it 🤙

[@2901nc]

Agreed-signed by an older woman has made it through life just fine when times were a lot less hospitable.

[@LiveWire_Guy]

Are women going to build the cities?

[@timetowakeup6302]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@cottontop912]

No. They will be standing there complaining about something.

[@yoloyogurt7678]

​@@cottontop912probably about needing men to build their cities

[@SuperJasinder]

😂😂😂😂😂 they want it all except for the hard work and death. That they hand over to us men, promising great things never to be delivered.

[@Connie32196]

The days of real men like my father who could build without a four year degree are long gone. Very few real men around these days.

[@liamgio795]

That’s nice, but what is a woman?

[@ZamparoDancingIdiots]

How to bankrupt your company 101

[@aknown_nerd]

When are u going to upload recent ted talk organized at srcc? TedxSRCC

[@wltdo6930]

If you make offices too warm, men can’t take off their shirts to compensate. If you are a bit cold you can at least wear something warmer to compensate

[@Anonymoose66G]

Obviously, this woman is on a tirade about absolutely nothing 😂

[@billyburton123]

Ask a man for their jacket and they'd have no problem lending it to you while they stick it out in the cold too lol. If they're really cold, they'll just bring an extra. It boggles my mind why shes making a big deal out of this, and this is in part why chivalry is dying.

[@NinjaCoderInTraining]

Or maybe.. workplaces should allow men to take off their shirts anytime. A healthy work environment shouldn't shame men for openly showing their masculinity

[@210Artemka]

Recently I worked in an office that was really cold. It didn't have any air conditioner, it was just an old industrial building converted into a loft for offices. Most of the employees were women and I was the one who was cold the most all the time! At least we had some blankets there (which is a great solution, btw).

[@Censortubes]

Im amazed they let this be a ted talk and really shows how far its fallen. HOW ABOUT FOR HUMANS?

[@Yuzuklerinefendisi-6dkkdkss]

West is falling and i am happy about it you get what you seed.

[@210Artemka]

That's pretty funny, actually

[@farewelltofaith2540]

Man I’m telling you it’s easier to be a woman today than it ever has been in history. Now it needs to be even easier apparently

[@lillili77]

Speaking from all your many lifetimes of experience I suppose?

[@djackson4605]

@@lillili77 We do that all the time. Your reply is inane and passive-aggressive...

[@farewelltofaith2540]

@@lillili77 well then say I’m wrong, but documented history isn’t going to be on your side.

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

@@lillili77 You don't need to be a vampire. You just gotta know history. Simple. Life is easier for All in a modern setting.We have tools, some quite advanced, steel, systems.

[@lillili77]

Yes and history doesn't even agree on this silly point. The only history you're probably familiar with is a very narrow euro centric form where women were chattels. Maybe read some history from outside that bubble and you'll see that there were times in history where the masculine and feminine were much more in harmony, not pitting one against the other( like most of this comment section).

[@joshlowell3075]

Both women and men are different shapes, heights, sizes so how is the world made for men. Midgets or men that are 4 feet tall, 5 feet tall 6 feet tall and the sae goes for women. Speehes that can't go challenged while the speaker is speaking.

[@BalanceProper]

What nonsense

[@fred1382]

How about you build it yourself all of you women can get together and fund the buildings you want and do it however way you want

[@dinkydi9573]

We can’t afford to, we’re too busy funding the buildings that men are building.

[@lillili77]

What a wierd comment. It's not like all the men in this comment section built my city. They just benefit more from it. Is it really too much to ask that half the population gets their needs taken care of?

[@DUDEfreestyle]

Women have a hard time putting together a computer desk from IKEA, how are they going to build a city? 😂

[@210Artemka]

I think the right title will be "How to design workplace and cities for women in the US" or "for people", because it's mainly a US problem. Especially in terms of transportation. Even in Russia we have better public transportation systems then in the states. The "baby on a workplace" argument seems strange. Office is a place for work, not a daycare or kindergarten. I get that unexpected things happen sometime, but if you are not expected to bring a baby along with you (unless it's in your contract) than why should you expect an infrastructure for it? Also bringing your buddy (from outside of the organization) to some corporate training event is strange imho, I would like to get a deeper take on it.

[@ardonjr]

women: "we want to be treated equal" also women: "we need cities to be adapted to women" 😅

[@lillili77]

Literally because men are used as the default. Equality is building it to suit both sexes

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

@@lillili77 How so??

[@Anonymoose66G]

@@lillili77 Your acting like their not already.

[@lillili77]

@@JohnDoe-qz1ql one example being medical testing that's been done primarily on men and then that data being used to treat both men and women. If you enjoy reading, there's a book called "invisible women" that gets into more of the data. I think a lot of these issues stem from the fact that we as a society are trying to act like men and women are the same (someone can just identify as the other now apparently). There's clearly differences and we should embrace and balance the masculine and feminine.

[@ardonjr]

@lillili77 We already embraced the differences in men and women.. but now, sometimes, women want to be treated equally (which I understand), and sometimes, we have to embrace the differences. Like.. make up your mind!

[@martaardesi2056]

I deeply appreciated this talk. ❤️ Thank you very much indeed for sharing your ideas and your work. I would love to see, hear and watch more contributions about how we can transform cities and towns in order to get them accessible to all kind of folks.

[@NicoSmets]

Cats, lots of cats.

[@Kritikanbringer]

If you know, you know. 😹

[@fachero]

Everything that has ever been built throughout history was ultimately for the comfort of women and children. So ungrateful. Build it yourself.

[@djackson4605]

A lot of her points were how women are less productive than men, presumably because they're not "happy, or comfortable, or safe" enough. What is women are literally less industrious than men though? And more high-maintenance... I'm not remotely against tailoring a world more for women, but this presentation was so melodramatic and based in emotion, I can't take her seriously on so many arguments. She's too emotionally driven to be taken seriously.

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

Yes, like men are happy, comfortable and safe under the miserable, blazing sun in dangerous jobs. Some urinals are installed a bit high for me, but I don't run around crying about it.

[@210Artemka]

​@@JohnDoe-qz1qlbeing on another side of the spectrum: Most chairs, tables (almost all the furniture actually) is built for an average high people. If you are higher than average, you will be struggling with pain from your office job because you can't sit properly. I can't even cook on my own kitchen for a long time, because I have to tilt down all the time!

[@peerc30]

I’m glad Ted talks is a shell of what it used to be

[@ej7052]

It's quite sad actually, TED talks used to be inspiring from what I remember

[@HCoons1975]

More of a European style city. Damn. I wish we had this dream in the US. The US sucks when it comes to valuing women's contributions.

[@pinokogut]

I'm all for women's cities. build them yourself, finance them yourself, maintain them yourself. no man inside. how long will cities like this last?

[@flyingfig12]

As long as all men cities.. they need each other. Yep i am excluding myself from this, i've been out of the game for too long.

[@geneleboyce]

RIP TED Talks

[@naturalobserver1322]

Yup, and we know who would have to build them. Right guys? 😉

[@MonDieuMaCauseMonEpee]

Is y'all gone build em?!?

[@zeberek1987]

I start watching this with my girlfriend and i said women need bigger parking spaces. My girlfriend said it is very sexist and get angry that I say something like that. Few min pass and this women say just same thing :D

[@Anonymoose66G]

Lmao 😂. This woman's absolutely insane. Your gf obviously is as well if she gets that mad over a joke.

[@210Artemka]

Her justification is quite good, actually.

[@ericolson9327]

Much of this could be solved by women giving more childcare responsibilities to her partner. Who will be working at the bank when you extend the hours? You want to make parking lots even BIGGER which will make cities warmer and increase the distance you have to walk to get to the building? It seems like this is for women who chose to work full time and bare the majority of the work of raising a child simultaneously. That scenario precludes having the same productivity as a single worker with no dependents.

[@billyburton123]

The office is a grim place where you go and just do work. It's not even specifically tailored for men more so than it is just the bare simple minimum of a building, because men are simple minimalist creatures who don't want to think, and here you go about making workplaces be more like a "dream home", with a place for the kids to play, etc. I'm sorry but the work office was never designed for kids in mind either. I tried to come into this with an open mind but this is the exact reason why there are a lot of patronizing comments along the lines of: "aww what's wrong sweetie? Did they not make your Starbucks grande latte correctly :(?"

[@210Artemka]

I do not agree about the office being just for work. You spend quite a lot of time there so why not make it nice? Coming from an IT industry, I can say that we made great progress there. However, building office space suitable for kids and babies is just nonsense. If the company wants you to bring children to work, than they can build their workspace that way. But if you are not expected to do it (and you are not in most cases) than why do you want them to spend resources on that? Even if they do, do not expect an equal salary after that...

[@nun-chan9433]

timing = 12:02. what would it take to make these changes the anther. in this caption, the word 'anther' should be "answer". I'm an intermediate English learner and also to my ear, it would somewhat resonate 'anther'. even that sophisticated Google translate express it as he heard. And it might be useful/crucial function for language learners in order to progress our pronouncing skills. I can't correct my pronunciation 'work/walk", "a/the" how many times I repeat to try to correct it, but GT is unforgiving/relentless.

[@marieline23]

I’m a woman and I found that show ridiculous I’m never thought like that cities are made for everyone and if some doors are too heavy so i had to be stronger myself ! There’s all kind of people tall, little, cities has just been built between because it’s difficult to fit everyone ! Too much machism leads too much feminism careful and vice versa

[@RaspK]

She is literally spouting nonsense; women don't generally have 9 times lower handgrip strength (maybe weakest woman to strongest man?), and that's still irrelevant, as pulling a door open has more to do with core strength, i.e. the muscles found all over your torso, and secondarily leg strength and upper arm strength; even including the generally higher male strength, the reality of the matter is that the main contributing factor, as multiple studies have showing with their differing results, has always been how you apply that strength - as bad form minimizes your output. To put it simply, if a woman tries to pull with her fingers, which is what handgrip strength basically translates into, that's her fault!

[@starblitzz7283]

Segregation, ah yes,

[@aNotoriousPhD]

well, cities and workplaces currently are segregated by this mindset then, as 99% of both are designed and built completely for men only

[@Number74er]

@@aNotoriousPhDyes the idea when building all American cities was, let’s make everything more difficult for women. The fkn absurdity of this statement. Cities were not built for men or for women they were built for humanity.

[@JohnDoe-qz1ql]

​​@@aNotoriousPhDsince when??🤔🤡🤡🤡

[@ItsHooDie]

@@JohnDoe-qz1qlmans never been in a building with two bathrooms.

[@mengli-p3m]

Sadly, there is still seldom service for women at work to take care of their babies, and they have to sacrifice themself to their family

[@fc4660]

Not true for all women and we can learn to approach our employers to voice what we need

[@witheringliberal2794]

Some good points raised…but she was a bit melodramatic.

[@djackson4605]

Very if we're being honest. The tone undermined her message, because she comes off as childish/weak.

[@ravenvalentine4919]

for what now ? what about the rest of human beings ? what kinda title is this ?

[@meanderinoranges]

Why would anyone want an entire city to be nothing but a kitchen?

[@flyingfig12]

haha you should use it for your next standup comedy routine... there's good potential it won't flop. But if it does, do like Johnny Carson and say .. 'Let happiness fly up your nose'.. which always gets a laugh.

[@Aree.2000]

Your pfp 💀😭😂

[@sunnywhether]

I appreciate this. Pay no mind to the haters.

[@modaserhabibi1093]

Good speech 🗨

[@gypsylee333]

No

[@Lilwoozyhere]

Someone please reach out to this creature and make sure she is ok.

[@gameoflearningenglish]

I appreciate it. Amazing talk!

[@graceroby2410]

My boyfriend’s car headrest doesn’t go low enough for my head

[@RaspK]

I'm just above-average male height; our car barely fits me.

[@fc4660]

I’m sorry for men that this marginal view was allowed a TED stage. This is not representative of all women. (Aside: And for menopausal women the heating presents a horror) we can all learn to live in harmony, surely

[@StarkillerQue]

There's a Supermarket and a Sephora every 5 miles... What more do you want?

[@WhyWasItMyRealName]

this has to be the dumbest ted talk i have lisened to. gripp streanth does not help you open doors if you are trying to crush the grip thats probebly why its hard work trying to open doors. either put your weight into it to push the door open or pull the door preferably with your back muscles or you can use the door opening button that exist for some doors. women do not need larger parking spots if you have a problem learn to park. the child facility sounds like a good ide but what if we could make a large one from multible companies to save money and could also have people educated in child development to look after this children and make sure the cildren are stimulated and learn to socilize with thair peers, lets call the facility a kindergarden.

[@bukurie6861]

Thank you!So warm and attractive talk.And a day with new design for women to have special place that I have thought for a long time as men have,and pensioner (man) .But the women😩

[@NinjaCoderInTraining]

That seemed like a nice Ted talk. Sadly, most of it went over my third world head

[@BobCollins42]

This August 2023. She seems to be talking about office work. Has she even heard of WFH? A lot of people are doing it. It's particularly good for people who also care for children.

[@gerhardus5659]

Who actually builds all of this stuff she refers to?

[@katytj643]

Excuse me ur suggestions were easy open door and warmer office ( women in menopause tend to get too hot!!! Warmer work place for women???)and also a place to bring a friend????

[@armandocastillorodriguez1731]

Hoy inicia la isla desafio en Turquia que emocion

[@crisislord00]

Not sure if satyr or real

[@Argentdrinkvender]

Can't see her hooves, but you're probably right.

[@triple_sec0]

I appreciate this talk very much. The male model of the world is filled with hindrances and obstructions large and small. The world around us is by and large built with data and input from men only and for their comfort and ease. This must change.

[@ItsHooDie]

Then why do we have clothes made for woman

[@Anonymoose66G]

Name one thing that's built for men that both sexes use on a daily basis...

[@Yuzuklerinefendisi-6dkkdkss]

İ am happy about is that West is falling and traditional chinese is gonna prove what is it all about.

[@cBodhi]

so brainwashed smh

[@illuminati10yearsago80]

Why go on stage to complain and make demands, when you could start a succesful company with your fellow boss ladies and spend your own budget on bigger parking spaces and whatever else? It's almost like you're expecting men to go out of their way to make all of this happen for you.

[@tclmac1]

It's a14 minutes talk..... She complained for almost 14 minutes... what's ted talk become. Sigh...

[@JM-mb7xc]

Lots of speaker's daydreaming- not much substance. And no new ideas for designing workplaces for women. Not even thought provoking.

[@NiranjanKumar-fi2dv]

I love it er speech

[@anumatis]

Matko nebeská 😲

[@georgiaamanatides4207]

This gal likes to hear herself talk. Listen to all the buzz words she uses. 😮 Body language is annoying.

[@bxst8450]

Think about your experience.. 😂 whose gonna build that city??

[@laviniasnow4494]

Some of the things this woman presented are plain ridiculous. 🙄

[@sdffdsf0]

LOL

[@thereverendepi_gee565]

yawn.. TED used to say important things?

[@Legendaryaire]

Not sure, but this might be transphobic. Lol.

[@jasonwhited3336]

Definitely some first world problems. If women want these things then go build, plan and pay for them. Dads have the same size parking spaces and car seats as women. Did you know that 98% of women have to wipe their own butts. Surely we can do something about all that wiping that women must endure.

[@mohammadsamir2713]

You could also set in home instead of all the suffering, just find the right man to let you do that

[@ahmedibrahim581]

Hey i demand selling me the self driving car for the same price as the regular car because we need to make highways more comfortable space for people who can't drive

[@deez7015]

They literally already are, look around in public. Way more women and children than men. They’re gone lol.

[@cBodhi]

wow, Ted talks is really going down this road eh? smh..what a shame

[@DUDEfreestyle]

One of the worst Tedx Talks I've watched....

[@liamgio795]

Maybe women should stay home and let men go out to work? It’s called remote work, you know?

[@Aree.2000]

Maybe women should go to work in office and let men and boys go to work in underground mines, you know?😍

[@Yuzuklerinefendisi-6dkkdkss]

@@Aree.2000 wait for 2030 and see how traditions abolish degeneracy.

[@CyboWhale]

This is nonsense

[@0bsonnn]

Yiikes this is what grooming looks like

[@braedonmcknight154]

Pphhahahahahaha