Clara Greed

Surveying Sisters (eBook, PDF)

Women in a Traditional Male Profession

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past few years there had been a dramatic increase in the number of women entering the surveying profession. Fewer than five per cent of practising surveyors were women, but women comprised twenty per cent of students. Originally published in 1991, Surveying Sisters explores the question of whether 'more' would mean 'better', either for women surveyors themselves, or for women as consumers of the built environment.

Clara Greed investigates the experiences of individual women surveyors, as well as studying the nature of the male majority. Taking a broadly feminist perspective and using an ethnographic approach, she develops a strong theoretical basis, incorporating the gender, class, and spatial dimensions of the situation, centring round the concept that surveying has its own distinct professional subculture. She traces the historical roots of the profession, and its attitudes to women, and makes constructive suggestions for improving the position of women surveying today.

This was a highly topical study, at a time when the surveying profession was eager to attract more women in order to allay the effects of declining numbers of school leavers and potential 'manpower' shortages. It will be of interest to people concerned about issues of gender in disciplines such as sociology, management studies, higher education, urban geography, and women's studies, and to the women and men who work in the surveying and other built environment professions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000632989
• Artikelnr.: 64252142

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part 1: Surveying Sisters? A Study of the Position and Perceptions of Women Chartered Surveyors
1. Is More Better?
2. Conceptual Perspectives
Part 2: The Historical Perspective
3. The Background to Surveying up to 1900
4. Twentieth Century Development of Surveying
5. Women's Presence 1945 Onwards
Part 3: Education and Practice Today
6. The Educational Context
7. Fitting into Surveying Education
8. The Position of Women in Surveying Practice
9. Getting by in the World of Surveying
Part 4: Implications for the Built Environment and the Profession
10. The Influence of the Subculture on What is Built
11. Conclusion
Appendix 1: RICS Membership Figures
1989
Appendix 2: Comparisons with Other Professions in 1989
Appendix 3: A Summary of the Range of Courses Within Surveying
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index.