Starting Your Own Architecture Firm: Challenges For Women

Architizer
March 20, 2013

Starting your own firm is a challenge for all architects. But women face an extra set of battles, from breaking out of the residential and interiors game to finding some semblance of a work-family balance in a profession that frequently demands a 60-hour work week. Not to mention that the stats are still very much stacked against women, who earn roughly 41% of the architecture degrees but make up just 17% of the ranks of principals and partners. We can’t all be Zaha! (Even if we were, we’d still have lots to complain about.) More … http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/79565/starting-your-own-architecture-firm-challenges-for-women/.