It is not easy to quantify exactly who works in architecture, or how they work. Figure 1 (below) represents the most accurate and comprehensive picture ever made of the participation of women in architecture in Australia. But even this diagram is really a kaleidoscope of fragments, because almost all of the existing sources of empirical information have their problems. So if the data is incomplete or flawed, why do numbers matter? Well, they do still sketch a rough shape of the profession and, as all architects know, sketches can tell us a lot.
Looking at figure 2 (below), we can see that the number of architecture graduates in 2012 had more than tripled since 1987, that male graduates have more than doubled in number, and that women are over six times as numerous as they were in the late eighties. Relative to the total population of Australia, architecture graduates are twice as plentiful as they were in the eighties.
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