Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

“The figures show salary discrepancies of up to £55,000 between women and their male counterparts, and widespread discrimination in the workplace and on site.” #feminism #architecture

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According to a report by Bruce Tether for the RIBA's Gender Pay Gap Project, one unnamed company state the reason for GDG as "there are more 'higher quality' men in the industry". (I have a foul taste in my mouth as a response) #feminsm #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"Men outnumber women in the top pay quartile in nearly two thirds of the reporting organisations. By contrast, in the bottom quartile, women are more likely to outnumber men." - Bruce Tether #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"There is a scepticism and more misogynist behaviour here. Although, while there were people against me, there were also people living here who were incredibly supportive." #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

“Hadid, a former winner of both the Stirling Prize and the Pritzker Prize, told the Observer newspaper she found it "difficult" to work in the UK. "They are very conservative," #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"On seeing their male colleagues draw out in front of them, women who lack a feminist awareness are likely to feel that their failure to achieve is their own fault." - Denise Scott Brown #Feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"... their careers. By the same token, the early years in practice bring little differentiation between men and women. It is as they advance that difficulties arise, when firms and clients shy away from entrusting high-level responsibility to women."

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"Some young women in architecture question the need for the feminist movement, claiming to have experienced no discrimination. My concern is that, although school is not a nondiscriminatory environment, it is probably the least discriminatory one they will encounter in ...

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"I am called a 'woman architect' and I have disliked that title - I have resented it - for it's implication that women have some physical or mental impediment they have remarkably overcome in managing to practice architecture" - C.W. Smith #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"Fragmentation ['woman architect'] is undesirable for the profession, I believe, in that members of the separate groups may tend to think of themselves primarily as belonging to the subgroup and only secondarily as belonging to the profession as a whole" #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"It will mean recognizing an entirely different model of culture, consciousness, and gender. It will mean giving women the imagery we need to gain confidence and independence through our womanhood, not in spite of it." - Mimi Lobell #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"For what it can do for women, for architecture, and for society at large, the Buried Treasure of women's cultural heritage in architecture needs to be unearthed." #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"... that preceded the male-dominated, hierarchical, warlike states of the ancient world. They virtually ignore the Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures whose art and architecture abound in female imagery, and who also INVENTED architecture and urbanism" - Mimi Lobell #feminism

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"Perpetuating the nineteenth-century assumption that history begins with the 'high' civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Greece, they convey the impression that nothing worth mentioning was built by the cultures ..." #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

""Lacking a visible mythology, women's culture therefore lacks a symbolic language". This cultural impoverishment of women can, in part, be traced to the way architectural history is taught." - Mimi Lobell #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"When the glass ceiling hits you, you will think it is your fault unless you know a bit about feminism, and it will destroy you." #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

"There are as many women as men in the early stages of architectural practice, but as they move up the ladder, the glass ceiling really hits. I say to young women today, don’t cast out your feminist awareness" #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

“In her address, Scott Brown also warned women architects of the continuing fight against the glass ceiling and called on them to embrace their "feminist awareness" #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

In fact, 35 per cent of women graduating from schools of architecture will have left the profession altogether in a decade. (dezeen) #feminism #architecture

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Amy Frances @afbarchitecture

5 years ago

Women architects in the US still earn on average $15,000 a year less than their male counterparts in identical roles. Over the past decade, female architecture staff has increased from 28 to 35 per cent at firms. (dezeen) #feminism #architecture