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D. Kuhlmann:
"What´s wrong with the Fountainhead?";
Talk: 8th European Conference on Gender Equlity and Higher Education, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; 2014-09-03 - 2014-09-05.

Despite nearly equal numbers of male and female students
entering architectural studies, there is a certain attrition of
female students and not even those who graduate become
all practicing architects. In this paper we want to take a look
at various reasons why there is still a lack of women archi
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tects. There are numerous articles about the what of gender
inequality in architecture - in Austria, for example, only 10%
of architects (Ziviltechnikerinnen) are women, and they earn
50 % less than their male counterparts - but there are very
few strategies how to lessen that gender gap. Even though
it has become clear that it is necessary to include women
architects to ensure gender diversity and gender budget
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ing in planning and architecture, women continue to be
extremely under-represented in the architectural profession.
In both the academic and the professional fields of archi
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tecture, positions of authority are almost entirely male, and
as such, the profession is defined by a heterosexual, white,
male perspective

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