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Not knowing much about Architecture career can someone please tell me is it a very male oriented career?.

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1. Not as much as civil engineering is.
2. Yes -- unfortunately, architecture is still a very male oriented profession. If you work in some of the large cities, might be a bit easier. In most of the offices in NYC, for example, you can find the ratio male to female much better than in small cities like Plymouth, MI. Last year the Moma (Museum of Modern Art in NY) sponsored some lectures on women in architecture. Take a look at the newspaper review about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/arts/design/31woma.html Some data that the critic gave in that article: "Women make up roughly half of all students in American graduate schools of architecture. Yet according to the American Institute of Architects, the professional association for practitioners, women accounted for only 13.3 percent of its members last year, an improvement from 1.2 percent in 1975 but a depressing figure nonetheless. And the number who have entered the ranks of international stars is minuscule."