ABSTRACT
In the early 1990s, when I was a practising architect in India with a master’s from the United States and a mother of two girls, I had a personal crisis. I suddenly realized that my career had reached nowhere close to what I had imagined it to be in the heady days of being at the top of my class in high school. This dilemma sent me on a search that has taken more than 25 years. During this period, as the cliché goes, the personal became political for me. It has been at times a lonely walk, at other times very enriching and fulfilling, with the collective experience touching other women. This book is a culmination of that long journey that began when my feminist consciousness grew, eventually bringing gender and architecture together in my life. The entire experience has, however, given me tremendous positive energy as my network of women in architecture grew and some of them became close friends for life.
