Headship Of Professional Bodies In The Built Environment: The Challenges Facing The Female Gender

The United Nations have since 1975, taken special interest in the development of the women/girl child through initiatives, strategies, policies, and programmes. One of such is the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing China, 1995. The aim of that conference was to advance the development, empowerment and equality of the female gender with their male counterpart. The full impacts of these efforts remain to be maximized in the headship of professional bodies in the built environment by women in Nigeria? The emergence of the first female national president of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors in November 2015 prompted the need for this study. The aim of this paper is to investigate the interest of the female gender in governance and headship positions. Data for enrolment and graduation of females in quantity surveying from 2005 to 2015 was collected from four higher Institutions of learning. Descriptive statistics and percentages were used to analyze data collected.