ABSTRACT
Of the 100,000 registered architects currently active in Germany, approximately 34,000, or one third, are women. 1 Thirty years ago, women accounted for roughly one quarter of all architects in the German Democratic Republic, or GDR, 2 but less than 10 percent of those in the Federal Republic of Germany, or FRG. 3 From a quantitative standpoint, women architects in the GDR made great professional strides in the architecture profession and building industry. However, when their impressive numbers are considered from a qualitative standpoint, this success is misleading because they rarely assumed key positions of power and influence.
