"I don't know how else to answer this, besides: the gendering of design as women's work is why people don't use the title "web designer" anymore." Yeah ... nop

"I don't know how else to answer this, besides: the gendering of design as women's work is why people don't use the title "web designer" anymore." Yeah ... nope. The reason for the split (and I think it started earlier) is that front-end development changed from being a bit of HTML, CSS and a smattering of JS or PHP, to real actual structured, architected programming with complex frameworks etc. Web design similarly become something much more professional, and more aligned with design in other fields. Therefore 'web design' carried an air of amateurism, and was no longer fashionable versus simply 'design'.