Future Scenarios of Architecting Motherland

When I first became a mother, I didn't realise how many challenges and political issues I would face in my professional life as an architect.

At the beginning, after my maternity leave, I thought, no problem, a piece of cake, I'll come back full-time, overtime - I have to stay on track. Despite having a child, I worked tirelessly, first combining office hours and the construction site. Then in academia, running from the studio to the kindergarten, to give lectures, to give consultations to my students, worried that at some point the phone would ring and it would be the kindergarten telling me that I had to go pick up my child. I thought nothing had changed, I just needed to work a little harder, a little longer, to achieve my dreams and keep my CV on track. I was a full time architect and a full time mother.