Louise Blanchard Bethune is recognized as the first American woman who worked as an architect. Maybe there’s a Bethune among our young girls in the Crescent City, Baton Rouge, Lafayette or elsewhere in the state. — The Advocate
As the investigation into the deadly Hard Rock hotel collapse in New Orleans continues, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, who has been meeting with the expert architects and engineers studying the collapse made a stunning realization: “The majority of them were absolutely men.”
A staff editorial published by The Advocate highlights comments that Cantrell made at a recent Girl Scouts Louisiana Leadership Luncheon, where she commented on the gender disparities she observed among the experts who had been tasked with helping her administration navigate the aftermath of the collapse.
According to the article, Cantrell said, “there’s a great need to make sure that our women, our girls, are being groomed to take their rightful positions in the area of STEM, in the city of New Orleans and in the state of Louisiana.”
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