Yeah, but when I talked to my high school counselor about being an architect, in 1960, based on the fact that I was the only girl who had taken mechanical drawing classes in the school’s memory and I made straight 100s on the assignments, he took about ten paragraphs to respond that it was a really cute idea, now, seriously, did I want to be a nurse, a secretary or a teacher—just until I got married and stayed home with my kids, of course.
Yeah, but when I talked to my high school counselor about being an architect, in 1960, based on the fact that I was the only girl who had taken mechanical drawing classes in the school’s memory and I made straight 100s on the assignments, he took about ten paragraphs to respond that it was a really cute idea, now, seriously, did I want to be a nurse, a secretary or a teacher—just until I got married and stayed home with my kids, of course.