 Participants organized themselves into sustainable professional networks and continued to advocate for issues relevant to professional women in general, as well as the movement to include more women in the architecture and design professions.As the feminist movement began to wane, in the late 1970s, Ms. Birkby's focused on teaching and feminist architecture studies and conferences.The Women's School of Planning and Architecture closed and Ms. Birkby went on to teach architecture at Long Island and CUNY in New York.