ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the place of women in surveying education within the territory of the subculture, and at women’s personal experience of the situation. It discusses the interaction between the meso and micro levels, and shows, for example, how channelling and ‘closure’ mechanisms are already working at the undergraduate level, drawing on material related to a range of colleges via my three ethnographic approaches. The physical setting and atmosphere were frequently mentioned by women students, as these were the factors which they noticed when they first entered the territory of surveying education, and within which they subsequently operated each day. The regional location of a course lends it a particular nuance. People say that northern courses are ‘tougher’; indeed, some still put considerable emphasis on traditional ‘real surveying’, whereas the south has moved more towards business- and management-oriented courses to produce the property professional that the City requires.
