2024-11-15T04:20:13-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/129958239/women-at-the-pinchpoints-of-architecture Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-06-19T17:57:00-04:00 >2016-03-08T12:33:32-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/sz/szoeej47l37dyzq2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>All those things that people talk about but you don't realize it until you go through it yourself... not feeling adequate, feeling like a failure...</p></em><br /><br /><p>Rosa Sheng, founder of Equity by Design and architect at <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/47974/bohlin-cywinski-jackson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bohlin Cywinski Jackson</a>&nbsp;in San Francisco, talks with KQED's&nbsp;Aarti Shahani about the hemorrhaging of women in architecture after graduation. Nowadays, about half of architecture graduates are women, but in the practicing workforce, that number drops to only 18%. Sheng is one of the architects leading the discussion around the so-called "missing 32%", referring to the percentage of women architects that decide to leave the profession before becoming licensed.</p><p>Sheng has <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/107094586/in-architecture-a-glass-ceiling" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">previously lectured</a> on this topic, and spoke at this past year's AIA National Convention in Atlanta on behalf of her <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/128795286/aia-moves-one-step-forward-in-approval-of-equity-in-architecture-resolution" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Equity in Architecture resolution</a>.</p><p>Listen to the full discussion on KQED's "Forum" below, originally broadcasted earlier today.</p><p><br><a href="http://www.podcast.de/episode/271002713/Why+Women+Leave+Architecture/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why Women Leave Architecture</a></p>