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)
History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS), further in the work of the Complex Committee for the History of Science and Technology of the Hungarian Academy of Science. She was on the board of the Loránd Eötvös Physical Society, the Special Committee János Segner and also of the Polish Copernic Memorial Committee. She gave many presentations on the history of physics, partly in Hungary, partly abroad, e.g. at the Dalton memorial meeting in London (1967), at the Boskovich Symposium in Dubrovnik (1961), at a congress in Brno (1966), at several IUHPS meetings: Warsaw (1965), Paris (1968), Moscow (1971). 85 Apart from one Docent/Head of Department most women were employed as university assistant lecturers or assistants. The number of scientific coworkers was slight. The data are similar in distribution to those obtained for Budapest Technical University (see Table 3). c) Women's participation in the scientific work of the Technical University for Building and Transport Engineering, Budapest, 1966/67 Table 9 shows the publications, innovations, exhibitions, research work, participation in competitions and designs of women authors within the teaching staff. Out of the 11 departments of the Faculty of Building Engineering women participated in publications from 6 departments, whereby 7 female authors contributed to 11 works out of 215. The two women on the teaching & scientific staff of the Faculty of Tansport Engineering participated in 5 publications out of a total of 140. The greatest (absolute and relative) number of women authors/co-authors could be found at the Faculty of Civil Engineering: they participated in the publishing activity of 8 Departments, in 48 publications out of a total of 444. Only a single woman was first author of two oral presentations 86 , out of a considerable number given by men without female contribution: for the individual Faculties, this amounted, in the above order, to 43,33 and 130, respectively. Both presentations referred to were contributed by the Department of Building Materials. Table 9 Scientific work of women authors within the teaching & scientific staff ot the Engineering Faculties of the University of Building and Transport Engineering in the academic year 1966/67" Faculty Total number of written works Written works with female participation Written works with female participation as % of total Building Engineering 215 11 5.1 Transport Engineering 140 5 3.6 Civil Engineering 444 49 11.0 Total 799 65 8.3
