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)

cation as already mentioned. (These institutions cannot be called, in the original sense of the word, universities as an important feature of the latter is to offer tuition in several branches of science within several faculties). Some of these institutions gave up specialisation in recent years only, while the Technical University for Building and Transport Engineering returned to its "mother institution" after less than a decade. This was possible, perhaps, as its faculties had been originally faculties of Budapest Technical University, while the rest of the specialised institutions were formed after World War II and had no tradition whatsoever in other branches of science. The academic year 1966/67 was the last to see the Technical University for Building and Transport Engineering as an independent institution of university-level technical education. Table 6 Women postgraduate students of Mechanical/Manager Engineering, Chemical and Electric Engineering graduated as specialized engineers from Budapest Technical University in the academic year 1966/67 as percentage of total

79 Sections/branches Total Women Women, % of total a) Mechanical Engineering Welding 21 1 4.8 Refrigeration 26 1 3.8 Textile/weaving 5 1 20.0 Textile/spinning 7 2 28.6 Food 19 Power plant energetician 29 2 6.9 Shaping without cut 28 3 10.7 Manager-engineer Mechanical industry/ organisation 40 1 2.5 Mechanical industry/operation research 14 Energy management 20 1 20 Engineer-teacher 16 3 18.8 Total 225 15 6.7 b) Chemical Engineering Instrumental analysis 40 12 30 Plastics processing 21 5 23.8 Pharmaceutical technology 24 2 8.3 Total 85 19 22.4 c) Electric Engineering Control technology 47 3 6.4 Microwave section 17 Total 64 3 4.7