ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to ‘chartered surveyors’, that is those who belong to the main professional surveying body, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Surveyors give professional advice on all aspects of land use and development, being particularly prominent within the private property sector. Whilst the increase in the admission of women has benefited the professions, not least in providing ‘new blood’ and energy, many are concerned that this solution, unless coupled with fundamental organisational changes, is going to create an even greater crisis in the future. Gender is a major consideration in understanding ‘who’ receives what sort of treatment. Women as ‘outsiders’ have been particularly conscious of these mechanisms being used against them, but their experiences have often been dismissed as being too personal or ‘emotional’, and therefore of little real importance. In order to investigate the position of women, it was necessary to study both the men and the women in surveying.
