ABSTRACT
This chapter describes discrimination in qualitative rather than quantitative terms by discussing everyday behavior. It deals with unequal education and career preparation as experienced by students and explains unequal career development as experienced by staff and faculty. Administrative and curricular vigilance can go a long way towards ending overt discrimination in education, but extirpating unconscious sexism requires even greater effort. Employment in the architectural profession often occurs while students are in school. The work of women and minority architects should be discussed in courses, and even more important, the needs of women and minorities as users of the built environment should be carefully examined. The architectural profession has a long history of perpetuating racist stereotypes in the design of segregated facilities for blacks and whites, and perpetuating sexist stereotypes in the design of workplaces and dwellings, and this intellectual history will not be easily overcome.
