#it's an insanely demanding field that has a ridiculously low pay compared to the expertise needed

[shinondraws]

man i just read an article about how architecture as a field seems to be on its way to become a "women's field" and i'm fuming no one can exactly say what is driving women to study architecture so much more than men. It used to be pretty much 50-50 for a long time and now it has tipped over to 70-30 im maybe guessing that it's not that more women are applying but less men are that would be a logical explanation and personally i think that it is mostly rooted in money there is a quote from decades ago from some man who was afraid that the salaries in the field would plummet because more women are entering architecture and lo and behold, architecture IS the lowest paying technical field job at the moment, in finland at least and fewer women are running companies or are even in leadership roles women are STILL facing sexism in the field, getting called "girls" and they are sometimes given a lower starting salary (happened in my first office job) and "tasks appropriate to women" also 100 years ago or so it was thought that architecture and chemistry were pretty much the only suitable more technical careers for women because "architecture is just drawing in a tidy office environment and chemistry is just cooking with bigger pots in a bigger kitchen" so im like it's a self fulfilling prophecy are architects really getting paid less because women a) still don't have the guts to ask for a raise and b) the value of an architects job is being reduced to "easy drawing in a tidy office that even *gasp* women can do" im just fgkjgdfhkdfjhdfkhkdfhkdhgkdfgf