liberty bell and yarchitect ...you are my hero(ine)s! thank you for your continually amazing posts! Strong women, with strong CAREERS, and a family. Personally, when I do have kids, they won't want me to stay at home-I would go absolutely crazy being a stay at home mom. My husband and I have actually talked about it and if anyone stayed at home it would be him. He is much more patient than I am.
Thanks, toasteroven, for posting that link. Excellent essay, and very sad indeed. I found it curious that Denise Scott Brown did not talk about children and being a mother and architect at the same time. I'm not sure if she has/had children?
But as sexism defines me as a scribe, typist, and a photographer to my husband, so the star system defines our associates as "second bananas" and our staff as pencils.
Excellent article - she really attacked the star system back in 1975? Awesome. And so many of her comments about stars and ego are so relevant now. Thanks toaster.
The idea that women are nurturers by nature or that women have to decide between family and career is somewhat archaic. Maybe not archaic, but very 1950's. In today's world, especially in today's economy, both parents generally work. If one doesn't the reason is not always to be the "stay home parent."
Some professions are friendly to the general perception of a middle class family lifestyle with a 9-5 work schedule. After anyone - woman, man, black, white - goes through architecture school and interns, they know what the schedule, work commitment and general poor salary will be like in the profession. How you decided to manage your goals is one thing but you know what you are getting into through inculcation from academia and internship.
With that said, I don't believe that you have to choose between family and career. Albeit, the combination will make the handling of both difficult, not impossible.
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liberty bell and yarchitect ...you are my hero(ine)s! thank you for your continually amazing posts! Strong women, with strong CAREERS, and a family. Personally, when I do have kids, they won't want me to stay at home-I would go absolutely crazy being a stay at home mom. My husband and I have actually talked about it and if anyone stayed at home it would be him. He is much more patient than I am.
Denise Scott Brown has something to say about it:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=124016082&blogId=208258270
Thanks, toasteroven, for posting that link. Excellent essay, and very sad indeed. I found it curious that Denise Scott Brown did not talk about children and being a mother and architect at the same time. I'm not sure if she has/had children?
Excellent article - she really attacked the star system back in 1975? Awesome. And so many of her comments about stars and ego are so relevant now. Thanks toaster.
The idea that women are nurturers by nature or that women have to decide between family and career is somewhat archaic. Maybe not archaic, but very 1950's. In today's world, especially in today's economy, both parents generally work. If one doesn't the reason is not always to be the "stay home parent."
Some professions are friendly to the general perception of a middle class family lifestyle with a 9-5 work schedule. After anyone - woman, man, black, white - goes through architecture school and interns, they know what the schedule, work commitment and general poor salary will be like in the profession. How you decided to manage your goals is one thing but you know what you are getting into through inculcation from academia and internship.
With that said, I don't believe that you have to choose between family and career. Albeit, the combination will make the handling of both difficult, not impossible.
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