Gallery: Meet 6 Female Architects Breaking The Glass Ceiling In The Male Dominated Industry
It's 2016, but much like tech and engineering, architecture is an industry that is not necessarily female friendly.
“It’s still a man’s world,” the legendary architect Zaha Hadid said in an interview with the New York Times shortly before her sudden death earlier this year.
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“For a woman to go out alone in architecture it is still very, very hard," Hadid said. In fact, a study released this year by the American Institute of Architects found that women and minorities believe they are less likely to be promoted and that both gender and race stand in the way when it comes to equal pay.
Read on for six more inspiring stories of women shattering the glass ceiling in the areas of architecture and design.