
This issue about why there are so few women is an omnipresent matter,” said Imre Molnar, dean of the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit. The industry is changing slowly but significantly.”It is an uphill fight for one simple reason, Molnar and others say. Far fewer women than men are into cars, so designing them holds less appeal. There is some validity to that. Of the 15 to 18 people who graduate from the center’s transportation-design program each year, only two or three are women. It’s the same at Art Center for Design in Pasadena, California, where one in 10 graduates is a woman.Part of the problem is women too often believe they must be gearheads who live and breathe performance if they want to design cars.Not many women know what’s involved,” said Park, whose work for GM includes the Chevrolet Orlando and the interior of the Cadillac XTS Platinum concept car It’s not all about mechanical things The misconception that you have to know the gearhead stuff to design a car is the reason why many women tend not to go into car design”.
