It's not easy for women who aspire to be architects to find female role models.
The lack of female role-models is an oft cited barrier to gender equality in entrepreneurship.
After all, there were no female role models on which to base such aspirations.
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Many chalk up the difference to a lack of female role models in STEM fields to begin with.
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The actress has the only female role in the film, alongside actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Sir Ben Kingsley.
Combine this with the lack of female role models, and starting a company is that much more challenging.
Furthermore, without female role models for future generations of women, progress will not just stall -- it will reverse.
Karren Brady, one of Britain's most high-profile businesswomen and star of BBC One show The Apprentice, believes strong female role models are essential.
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Cecilia Duarte, who sings the lead female role, Renata, is a classically trained mezzo-soprano who was born in Mexico and now lives in Houston.
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In the film the tables are so comprehensively turned that male strippers take on the female role and become a source of titillation to 1997's newly empowered women.
Bella Swan is a lousy role model because she relentlessly pursues a romance while Katniss Everdeen is a positive female role model because she kills people with a bow, right?
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When we talk about increasing the number of high growth women entrepreneurs in this country, we need to be talking about tools, not the need for more female role models.
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Wood was, arguably, at the peak of her powers: 1961 also saw the release of hit musical West Side Story - with Wood in the leading female role of Maria.
But in my home, I was trying to hold on to as much of the traditional female role as possible, partly because my husband wasn't backing me up in terms of picking up the slack in our family relationships.
And many of those questioned said they did not think there were enough female sporting role models.
So where does the legislation to restrict the role of female soldiers fit in?
Nepal ranks low in the league tables on maternal health, female literacy and the role of women in public life.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is in pre-production, and the role of the female lead is currently up in the air.
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Dating Done for You, based in Toronto, takes it one step further by offering the services of a female staff member who will role-play a date with clients over the phone, and then give feedback.
He has rarely if ever heard a female acquaintance crack a joke about his role as a stay-at-home parent.
Sanghvi, who will report to Dropbox CEO Houston in her new role, was the first female engineer at Facebook and worked on products including News Feed and led product management for products including Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect.
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The female equivalent went to Octavia Spencer for her role as a domestic servant in The Help.
Ms Davenport, 49, will take up her new role as the first-ever female boss of the force on 1 February.
Ms. Cook speculates that it could be because they did not understand the male's reproductive role, in which case the female body must have seemed miraculous and worthy of respect and worship.
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There were mixed views on quotas, with some female politicians acknowledging they had played an important role, whilst others stressed that quotas must not be allowed to create the impression that women politicians are less capable than their male colleagues.
The Very Reverend Janet Henderson, 55, became only the second female dean in Wales when she took on the role in March.
Here, his most prominent female dancer, Bernice Coppieters, had a central role.
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Likewise, in the secondary female lead, Courtney Elizabeth brought true distinction to her role's aerial and grounded challenges.
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Female Potter fans have been invited to an open audition for the role of Luna Lovegood.
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