Women (through) Architecture
What Does It Take to be Considered a Professional?
he list of keywords amassed for this article, such as ‘female professional’, ‘judicial officer’, ‘architect’, the ‘law’, and ‘architecture’, reminded me of embarrassing anecdotes related to me by my seniors about ‘toilets’. Why toilets? The first story is a senior female lawyer’s experience of judicial examination in the 1970s, when the number of female lawyers in Korea was less than five. As so few female candidates were taking the examination, many of the male candidates used to use the women’s restroom. This proved to be an awkward situation, as the female candidates were prevented from using the facilities, until the senior lawyer, who couldn’t wait any longer, pushed her way through the crowd into the lady’s room and other female candidates followed her. Second, eight years ago I heard the story of another senior colleague, who is a Professor of law in a local university. Since the law school has only a few female professors, it provided no toilets for female professors. Moreover, toilets for female students were not provided on each floor, which also meant that she did
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