With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.
Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.
I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.
At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.
At school I was an anti-magnet for women.
I always had more women working for me than men.
When I taught, all my best students were women.
If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.