You wait for a book about women in architecture and then three come along! Following on from my own book, Thrive: A field guide for women in architecture, comes 100 Women: Architects in Practice, and later in the year, the Bloomsbury encyclopaedia of women in architecture. What is great is that all these books are international in their scope, finally moving away from the Eurocentric depictions of women architects. The median percentage of women in architecture globally is around 33 percent, ranging from as low as 10 percent to a high of 53 percent. The discussion around why and how women can contribute to the design of the built environment remains a relevant one, especially as the profession is regulated in most countries.

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