The Same But Different: the professional socialisation of estate management students reconsidered

This paper compares and contrasts two separate pieces of research on surveying students and practitioners completed in 1980 and 1991, by Martin Joseph and myself respectively. This paper discusses the differences in the two approaches to the research topic, and the changes which have occurred in surveying education and practice over the last ten years, not least of which has been the growing numbers of women entering an erstwhile predominantly male profession. Emphasis is placed upon how women (as against men) experience the values of the subculture and the process of professional socialisation, and related to this women's place and role within surveying education and practice is discussed.     

“You're Just Imagining it,Everything's all Right Really,Don't Worry About it”: the position of women in surveying education and practice

This paper presents aspects of research into the position of women in surveying, highlighting in particular the changes that are occurring in erstwhile ‘male’ technological and professional areas, which are experiencing an unprecedented influx of women. These changes are not taken at face value as necessarily being of long‐term benefit to women, an attempt is made to look beneath the surface to find out what is really going on. The current state of play in the ongoing pursuit of gaining greater equality for women in higher education is considered, with a discussion of organisational structures which are still overwhelmingly male, in which women may have gained some ground, but men have lost few of their advantages in the process.