Architecture has an attrition problem

Published March 16, 2016 This content is archived.

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Metropolis, a popular architecture and design magazine, carried an article by Despina Stratigakos, interim chair of architecture, on “the attrition problem” — the fact that women leave the architecture profession in large numbers despite their healthy representation in architecture schools. Just 19 percent of registered architects today are women, while women represent 44 percent of architecture students, she writes. Stratigakos’ book, Where Are the Women Architects?, will be published by Princeton University Press in April.

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