Negin is a fine draftswoman, with a subtle sense of color, and if she had a greater appetite for self-promotion she might be a celebrated painter.
During World War II, while her future husband served as a medical illustrator in an Army hospital, she worked as a draftswoman in the Army Corps of Engineers and as an aircraft riveter.
At the time Ms. Doctorow was a gifted 27-year-old draftswoman strongly influenced by Vaclav Vytlacil, the modernist painter she studied under around the same time as Louise Bourgeois.
He was 7, he said, when his mother, a draftswoman in an architectural firm, was sent for re-education in a labor camp.
Mrs. Matzen, 53, worked for 33 years as an architectural draftswoman but said she faced age discrimination in her search for a new job.
SoHo Through Saturday Before Hannah Wilke became Hannah Wilke, feminist provocateur with a camera (and gum or ceramic vulvas in a range of sizes), she was a spirited, often wicked draftswoman.
On October 7th, they were sealed into a cattle car convoy No. 60, with "Charlotte Nagler, draftswoman" listed as passenger No. 660 for the three-day ride to Auschwitz.
Here are a few women you've probably never heard of, who are now receiving long-overdue attention: Maria Sibylla Merian was a 17th-century German botanist and entomologist who trained as a draftswoman at her family's Frankfurt painting and printing workshop.
"I do this mainly because it is an opportunity to have people get together to support the arts," said Ms. Ross, who is a senior draftswoman for a structural steel company.
Her mother retired as a draftswoman for Wallace & Tiernan, a maker of water purification systems that was in Belleville, N.J.
During World War I Miss Meière served in the Navy as a draftswoman, and after the war friends introduced her to her first architect patron, Bertram Goodhue.
