This article in the New York Times documents a variety of viewpoints of women working in architecture. It's so important to hear from the people who truly experience gender in their workplace, to come to understand what prejudices exist in spatial practices.
This article is rich in its diversity of voices, as different speakers bring intersecting factors into the gender issue. Sure, it's hard being a woman architect - but imagine being one of the "approximately 300 licensed African-American women architects in the whole of the United States."* Gender is not experienced in isolation. It is only by listening to people's experiences that this fact comes through so starkly.
*“African-American women make up less than 0.3 percent of the architecture industry. There are approximately 300 licensed African-American women architects in the whole of the United States. I am a rarity in the field. It’s overwhelming being in an industry that doesn’t see your demographic enough to correlate it with the occupation you love.”
—Farida Abu-Bakare, Atlanta
MS
*“African-American women make up less than 0.3 percent of the architecture industry. There are approximately 300 licensed African-American women architects in the whole of the United States. I am a rarity in the field. It’s overwhelming being in an industry that doesn’t see your demographic enough to correlate it with the occupation you love.”
—Farida Abu-Bakare, Atlanta
MS