Reply To: Women working in a male-dominated industry

[Tanya Olson]

If there was truly no discrimination in landscape architecture, you would see equal numbers of female ASLA fellows, equal numbers of women in ownership, partnership and managerial roles, equal numbers of women in professorships. Women have made up half of the landscape architecture graduates for some years now (ranging between 45%-55%). We should be seeing much higher numbers. Of course our profession is also 91% white if you want to talk discrimination. You can’t examine discrimination by looking at individual attitudes, rather by the power balance and who is in a position of power and who is not.

Sure, I’ve also worked with and heard about utter misogynists but I just chalk them up to being jerks. Thats not the type of discrimination BZ is talking about or which most women experience.

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