PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Nassauer, Joan Iverson TI - Managing Career and Family: The Experience of Women Landscape Architects AID - 10.3368/lj.4.1.31 DP - 1985 Mar 20 TA - Landscape Journal PG - 31--38 VI - 4 IP - 1 4099 - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/4/1/31.short 4100 - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/4/1/31.full AB - The family experience of women landscape architects as it relates to their career patterns is the focus of this study. In September 1982, a total of 716 women landscape architects from throughout the United States were sent questionnaires. Overall, 43 percent of the women responded. Only respondents who were employed and practicing landscape architecture at the time of the survey (n = 196) are included in the analysis presented here. Respondent groups were stratified on family experience variables (age, marital, and parental status). Simple tabular comparisons of work choices, professional status, work perceptions, and family experiences were made among the respondent strata. Parental status was found to be most clearly related to career variables, including career behaviors, achievements, and perceptions. While married non-parents reported that their family status affected their careers, the career achievements of this group were comparable to those of their non-married peers.