Women in Design: Glass Ceiling Politics Blamed SAN FRANCISCO--Architect Anne Fougeron hopes to chisel away at what she claims is a "glass ceiling in architecture for women." In a report by Diane Dorrans Saeks of the San Francisco Chronicle, Fougeron, an alumna of the University of California, Berkley, sites an architectural bureaucracy in which "men, perhaps understandably, give jobs and bids and consulting projects and the inside track to other men, men they know, men they've worked with." Fougeron added, "women are outsiders here." And the numbers seem to support Fougeron's claims. A recent survey by architecture marketing/design firm ZweigWhite notes that 95-percent of architecture professionals are Caucasian, and 92-percent are male. Fougeron, with assistance from the American Institute of Architects Committee on Diversity, is currently seeking funding to organize an international conference on women in design.