Senior management in chartered surveying: where are the women?

This paper draws from survey data to examine the chronic shortage of women in senior management positions in the surveying profession. It is based on the experiences of women currently working as chartered surveyors in the UK, addressing issues such as the high level of personal and financial investment women surveyors commit to their careers, the perpetuation of limited senior management representation through organisational and other barriers and the apparent inffectiveness of equal opportunities policies to adequately redress the balance.