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Discussion Forum - Gender in Illustration  (Illustration by Miguel Montaner ) Today's discussion forum was led by Emma and Beth. They started of by talking about how illustrators make autonomous decisions about their work based on their own experiences, thus the stereotypes are kept in a circle of art industry.  The next topic that E and B discussed was an illustration by Stephanie Wunderlich for a German magazine. The project was to create an illustration to an article about the chore of cooking around the time of Christmas. (Illustration by Stephanie Wunderlich ) The first illustration that Wunderlich has send to the magazine was of a woman cooking while the rest of the family was decorating the Christmas tree, however the editor of the magazine has stated that it represents a stereotypical image of the task and would prefer if it was a man who cooked (image on the right).   It seemed as a good illustration, therefore it was ac...