ÚNKP(ÚNKP-23-3-I-ELTE-119) Támogató: Kulturális és Innovációs Minisztérium Nemzeti
Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Alap
Szakterületek:
Társadalomtudományok (Nő és gender tanulmányok)
Stereotypes suggest that architecture is a profession for men, but trends in the male-female
ratio regarding university enrollment and graduation seem to prove this wrong.
The first part of the research is based on a longitudinal analysis through the review
of archival documents and a digital database. The results reveal how female representation
changed at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Faculty of Architecture
(the main architectural school in Hungary) during the period between 1941 and 2023.
Although the gender ratio became balanced in the 2000s, furthermore, the tendencies
of the last few years indicate the feminization of the profession; women are still
nearly invisible: only a few or none of them are listed as laureates of architectural
awards, as the leading designers of buildings published in journals, or as members
of competition juries. This phenomenon is addressed in the second pillar of the research,
which includes focus groups to examine the underlying factors, such as the incompatibility
of women's unpaid caring work with the common long-hours culture, the questioning
of women's competencies because of their gender, or the exclusion from informal networks.
