WOMEN (AND MEN) NEED TO KNOW

摘要

A friend of a friend I met recently told me she'd earned a master's degree in architecture from a great university on the East Coast and practiced architecture for a short time. Now she is working for an aviation contractor in quality control, and making more money than she had been in architecture. She loves it. I said, so, you are part of that diaspora of women who finish an architecture degree but ultimately wind up not practicing architecture. "Yeah," she replied. "Is that..a thing?" It is. This conversation happened in September, a few weeks before the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture released a report titled Where Are the Women? Compiled by Lian Chikako Chang, the ACSA's director of research and information, the report uses statistics to show the stark decline from the number of women who enroll as architecture students to the number subsequently employed in architecture, on through their status as licensed practitioners, architecture firm principals, and top prize winners in the profession.