Women in Surveying Engineering Courses – a Greek experience
Maria TSAKIRI, Sofia SOILE, Charalabos IOANNIDIS, Vassilis PAGOUNIS Greece
In the EU, from the 18 million scientists and engineers, about 59% are men and 41% women. In northern European countries less than one third of scientists and engineers are women. In Greece, this situation is more pronounced. Although Greek women are over-represented in undergraduate engineering studies, their proportions quickly decrease as one moves up the academic scale. To date, the average percentage of qualified women engineers comprise less than 25% of the Greek total qualified engineers, which is lower than the European average. Overall, about 20% of undergraduate engineering degrees are awarded to women, but only 13% of the engineering workforce is female. This paper explores the “leaking pipeline” in a specific engineering discipline, that of surveying engineering from bachelor to postgraduate research programmes in two Greek universities (National Technical University of Athens and University of Western Attica) which offer dedicated programs in surveying engineering. The main findings indicate that females appear to enter the surveying engineering courses with higher secondary school mean grades but graduate with lower mean grades. Females perform the same as males in MSc course degrees and when continue with doctoral studies only half will complete compared to their male counterparts.
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