ABSTRACT
Women have struggled in both the fields of architecture and ethics, which have long been dominated by male voices. While that has begun to change in recent decades as the number of women and their leadership roles has increased, there remains an irony in the gender inequity in these fields, since both rest upon the empathetic understanding and valuing of different perspectives in order to do their work. Embracing gender diversity and greater equity of all sorts is not only the right thing to do, as deontological ethics would argue, but also the wise thing to do, since a wider range of perspectives opens up the possibilities of more networked and nuanced ways of conceiving of both disciplines.
