Technikatörténeti szemle 23. (1997-98)

TANULMÁNYOK - Vámos Éva Katalin: Women’s Opportunities of Studying and Practising Engineering in Hungary from 1895 to 1968 (On the example of Budapest Technical University and its women students)

c) Women's participation in the scientific work of Budapest Technical University Table 4 shows the publications and oral presentations of women staff members at Budapest Technical University in the calendar year 1966.

43 The Table shows, first of all, that the number of oral presentations was much lower for both sexes (about 26,1% and 29,5%, respectively) than that of written works. The reason for this was that opportunities to participate in international congresses, conferences etc. were scarce. The percentage of works written with female participation was not much different from the respective value for oral presentations. The overall figures for written works were of the same order of magnitude for all three Faculties, decreasing slightly in the order in which they appear in the Table. However, overall figures for oral presentations were more than double for the Faculty of Chemical Engineering as compared to the other two faculties. Female contribution to the written or oral publishing activity was not uniformly distributed over the Departments of the Faculties. Table 4 Written and oral work of women authors within the teaching & scientific staff of the Engineering Faculties of Budapest Technical University in the year 1966

44 Total Written Works Total Oral Oral number works written number of presentapresentaFaculty of written with with oral tions given tions given works female female présentaby women by women participaparticipations or with or with tion tion as % of total female coauthors female coauthors as % of total Mechanical Engineering 272 7 2.2 43 2 4.7 Chemical Engineering 247 45 18.2 105 11 10.5 Electric Engineering 232 10 4.3 48 6 12.5 Total 751 62 8.3 196 19 9.7 At the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering works written by women or with women's participation came from 3 Departments

45 and the presentations