Gender and access to the profession: women in architecture

Discussions surrounding women's access to higher education and the labor market in general are of central importance when considering ways to establish more equitable living conditions and active roles in contemporary society. Although grounded in censuses and surveys linked to the formal labor market, this reflection provides a general baseline of women's current conditions in the face of difficulties stemming from the lingering legacy of a patriarchal and moralistic structure of professional hierarchies, where the leading figures are, and historically have been, men.

Furthermore, it is crucial to emphasize that this issue gains multiple layers of complexity when considering other factors, such as racial and socioeconomic parameters, which reveal even greater disparities compared to the privileged position of the dominant group, notoriously composed of white, cisgender men.