The world is designed for men, which makes it dangerous for women. It doesn’t have to be that way

By trade, I am an industrial designer. I have been a designer for the majority of my life. I have navigated the world as a woman for the entirety of my life. Every day, I inhabit and interact with spaces and things—the tangible, built world assembled to achieve modern life—in the same way that all women do. Only because I am a designer, I am acutely aware of its shortcomings. When I try to respond to a text with one hand and I cannot reach the farthest keys; when I use a public restroom...