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)

ular students and those attending evening or correspondence courses, on the one hand, and postgradual students that wanted to specialize in a particular branch of their discipline. Regular students were full-time engaged in studies, while the rest had, in general, a job in a pertinent branch of the industry. Their curriculum was necessarily somewhat restricted as compared to that of regular students (e.g. foreign languages were not included). Evening students had to attend their courses regularly, after work/office hours, while correspondence students had to appear only at pre-set intervals, e.g. to do some class-work or practice, and to take their exams. The postgraduate studies were of the correspondence type, too, and were started yearly in different selected sections/branches only, as will be seen from Table 6. Tables Women students of Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical Engineering graduated from Budapest Technical University in the academic year 1966/67 as percentage of total

76 Students graduated Total Women Women, % of total a) Mechanical Engineering Regular 444 36 8.1 Evening 174 12 6.9 Correspondence 110 7 6.4 Total students 728 55 7.6 b) Chemical Engineering Regular 148 77 52.0 Evening 68 30 44.1 Economic Engineering for the Chemical Industry 24 3 12.5 Total students 240 110 45.8 c) Electric Engineering Regular 562 54 9.6 Evening 177 15 8.5 Correspondence 100 5 5.0 Total students 839 74 8.8 According to Table 5, the total number of graduated students was highest for electric engineers and lowest (less than 1/3) for chemical engineers. The number of mechanical engineers was somewhat lower than that of electric engineers (87%).