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Of those who could graduate, few actually worked as architects. Most were absorbed by the commonly feminine roles, resulting from marriage and from the ideal of family promoted by the Estado Novo dictatorship. To the ones that risked prosecution for working outside the family, the option of jobs associated with the feminine universe, such as teaching, was privileged. Among those who were emancipated from this pattern, the majority worked in familiar partnerships, regarded as an extension of marriage. The women architects that follow the husbands in their African emigration often ended up having the opportunities to work in their professional field partly due to the lack of qualified technicians, and to the high demand of commissions. This paper not only seeks to outline a perspective on these women, but also tries to understand the context of their work by presenting two case-studies in the late in the late period of Portuguese Colonisation: Maria Carlota Quintanilha and Maria Emilia Caria.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/arts9030086","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,3]],"date-time":"2020-08-03T03:16:46Z","timestamp":1596424606000},"page":"86","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Women Architects in Portugal: Working in Colonial Africa before the Carnation Revolution (1950\u20131974)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Ana","family":"Vaz Milheiro","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel"}]},{"given":"Filipa","family":"Fi\u00faza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, 3000-104 Coimbra, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Comiss\u00e3o Instaladora (2014). 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