ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the persistence of, as well as potential resistance against, gender norms in the context of the emergent postsocialist educational system. In recent decades, much attention has been devoted to recruitment problems in the field of technology and science education. Efforts to bring forward gender balance at workplaces can, however, be observed only in the last decade, and the ratio of women at such Hungarian companies is not known. Girls have better marks in secondary school, which makes their entrance into higher education easier. The increase was rather related simply to the growing number of students accepted into higher education in general and specifically within education in technology. Most female students in the focus groups had an ancestor working in a technical field, or a brother or sister who took part in technical higher education. Most of the students had been engaged in tinkering since childhood and were familiar with the jobs of engineers and IT experts.
