A Semester and a Half

International Women's Day was on Thursday. It was a day of lots of posts with people's moms on social media and celebrating different things women have contributed to create the world today. In class we started to learn about Julia Morgan and her accomplishments in architectural design. It was really nice to hear about an accomplished woman in the field and the things she went to through and people she worked with to get to where she was; however, it also made me realize how long it had taken to finally hear about a woman in my field.

I really love architecture and I find its history fascinating, but just like the rest of the history we study, women have frequently been snubbed. It ranges from others taking credit for their work to the things they did to just be completely taken out of the history books. A lot of this had to do with culture at the time so I don't have anyone to file a complaint to about this but I frequently feel like this is talked about without anything being done to make a move towards equity. the men in architecture we've learned about have done many impressive things and they have a lot of work worth closely studying but when I started doing my own research on them last semester I found that even Frank Lloyd Wright took credit for the work a woman who worked for him did.

It's hard to know what work was actually who's at this point but just recognizing in class at least as a footnote that these women existed and worked for these famous men and impacted them would help take a step towards stopping the erasure of these names.