Judith Edelman, Architect, 91, Is Dead; Firebrand in a Male-Dominated Field

2014-10-20T11:47:00-04:00

At the 1974 national convention of the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco, Judith Edelman presented data showing that 1.2 percent of registered architects in the United States were women....These survey results, she said, “clearly demonstrate that the alleged grievances are not all in the heads of some paranoid chicks.” She then agreed to lead a task force to tackle the issue, out of fear that someone “insufficiently stubborn” would get the job.

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Judith Edelman, Architect, 91, Is Dead; Firebrand in a Male-Dominated Field