Improving participation of underrepresented group : projecting the image of the Nigerian female surveyor
Etuonovbe, Angela Kesiena
The issue of image, image enhancement, and all the associated derivatives or adjectives as could be applied to any group of persons, society, or profession is often considered as a major component vital to the survival of such bodies all over the world (Okokon, U. Essien 2004). . The importance of this concept, if we could so classify it, is underscored by the fact persons, groups, and governments to name a few, go to great lengths to launder their image, sometimes using second or third parties. This is principally because it pays for one to be perceived positively by other persons, groups, clientele, and custodians of other interests or stakeholders in whatever the subject object is doing, or professes to be doing. In professional studies, the issue of gender does not arise; people are selected according to their qualifications and performances. Once selected and admitted, both the male and female students attend some lectures, write the same exams, and at graduation, have the same qualification. This means that both the male and the female have equal opportunities for employment or they both could offer a good service to the nation in relation to their professional ethics. In Nigeria this is not the case. Admissions are done according to merit into the Nigerian universities or polytechnics offering Surveying and recently named Surveying and Geoinformatics. In some years no female student will apply, in other cases you may have one or two female students who were admitted amidst 15, 20 or 30 male students as the case may be.
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