When Bjork recently revealed how frustrating she finds it when journalists assume men must have done the producing on her albums, she reminded me of the many cases I have recently come across of women whose ground-breaking work was credited to men. Clara Driscoll, for example, was the creative mind responsible for the Tiffany Lamp which bears the name of Louis Comfort Tiffany, her boss. This is what we have yet to acknowledge as a society: men are not inherently better at doing things than women. Theyve just done a good job of convincing us they are. For more than a century, the famed Tiffany lamp was presumed to be the creation of designer and business man Louis Comfort Tiffany. Driscoll worked for Tiffany for twenty years, the supervisor of the so-called Tiffany Girls, a team of talented women whose contribution was considered largely peripheral (probably because they went by the rather unglamourous moniker of glass-cutting department). That changed about ten years ago when two historians combined their independent research to conclude that it was Clara Driscoll and her girls, and not Louis Comfort Tiffany nor his large staff of male designers, who had designed and executed some of the studios most prized and valuable lamps.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:25:03 +0000
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