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)
papers 52 and 2 oral presentations 53 to the overall number of works prepared with the participation of women. The department of General and Analytical Chemistry contributed 9 papers 54 and 2 oral presentations 55 with female participation. The contribution of the Department of Food Chemistry consisted of 4 papers 56 , 1 thesis (for the C.Sc. degree) 57 and 2 oral presentations 58 . The name of a single woman co-author appeared in the 3 papers 59 and 1 oral presentation 60 the Department of Physical Chemistry contributed to our list. The respective data for the Department of Chemical Technology were 1 paper 61 and 1 chapter of a longer study 62 . Five written 63 and 2 oral contributions 64 with female participation came from the Department of Agricultural Chemical Technology. The Department of Organic Chemistry contributed 4 papers with female participation 65 . Five written contributions came from the Department of Organic Chemical Technology 66 and, finally, 10 written papers 67 as well as 2 oral presentations 68 from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry. The majority of contributions made (entirely or partly) by women deal with problems of analytical chemical character. This discipline has always been, and still is, considered to be especially suited for women chemists. The life-story of the outstanding female analytical chemist Docent Dr. Bányai, Éva, C.Sc, (on the staff of the Department of Analytical Chemistry) was dealt with above. Another interesting woman researcher, Dr. Kurucz József né (Dr. Éva Kurucz-Lusztig) born in 1934 and on the staff of the Department of Agricultural Chemical Technology in 1966/67, later left the university and went working in the industry. As director general of the Company for Manufacturing Vegetable Oils and Detergents she made fruitful efforts in developing the Hungarian vegetable oil industry and was awarded the State Prize (shared with two male colleagues), the highest award a scientist could obtain in Hungary, in 1985. 69 The 10 written and 6 oral contributions, with female authors, from the Faculty of Electric Engineering were distributed as follows: Department of Automation - 2 papers and 2 university notes 70 , 1 oral presentation 71 ; Department of Physics - 1 paper 72 ; Department of Telecommunication and Instrumental Technology 73 - 1 paper; Department of Carrier Telecommunication - 2 papers 74 ; Department of Mathematics for Electric Engineers - 1 paper, 1 chapter in a book 75 and 5 oral presentations. Thus, women participated in the publicational activity of 5 departments only, out of the 18. d) Women graduated from Budapest Technical University in the academic year 1966/67 Finally, the numbers of women that graduated in the academic year 1966/67 from the three faculties shall be given along with the overall figures of freshly graduated students in Table 5. Here distinction must be made between reg-
