Maya Lin is the FIRST woman to design a memorial on the National Mall. "Architecture is a profession where you figure that whether you’re a man or a woman shouldn’t really matter. But when I was starting out, at the top firms, women architects were generally given the managerial positions, not the design positions. Why was it that women kept getting slotted not to be a design partner but a manager?"
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What a jagged image we use for women who achieve greatly, defining accomplishment in terms of the barrier rather than the triumph. There she is up where the air is thin, where men still outnumber women, but where the altitude is awesome. Our goal with Firsts is for every woman and girl to find someone whose presence in the highest reaches of success says to her that it is safe to climb, come on up, the view is spectacular. 

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Maya Lin On Being A Female Architect: 'I Didn’t Want My Gender To Become An Issue' | TIME
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