Gender ratio in Biomedical Engineering

In last decades there were many discussions about status of women in technology and engineering. Ratio of male and female university students corresponds to gender ratio in population. However when we look at individual study fields there are great differences. In the paper we try to show the situation in the Czech Republic considering number of university students and gender ratio in the country. Although women present majority among university students in the Czech Republic, their number in technical sciences and engineering is still very low. Special attention is focused on Biomedical Engineering master program at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. The motivation of female students to enrol in this particular program was addressed, together with their observations concerning teachers' and other students' attitude toward them. Also, these observations were compared with observations of male students. Students' feedback was obtained by questionnaires.