ABSTRACT
‘Men are interested in shopping really’, but from a different perspective; indeed, they play a major role in defining the spatial parameters of the social construction of the housewife. Very little appears to be happening as regards women and surveying in the immediate post-war period. The women who appeared in the journals were those from the government who might be seen as having the status of honorary men. The mid-sixties were the calm before the storm, and all seemed ‘normal’. Meanwhile, a few women were beginning to enter the new college surveying courses. A letter expressed concern about ‘vocational dead ends being foisted on boys and girls’ and the need to develop a future officer core within the profession. The profession has continued to grow in status and numbers in response to the buoyant property market, in which landed capital had almost replaced the importance of industrial capital as a primary component of the economy.
