GENDER AND CAREER ASPIRATIONS OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

Over the years, people have begun to drift from their fields of study to other professions. For the field of Architecture, a male-dominated field, assessing the impact of gender on career aspiration of students has become important. For this reason, a survey of architecture students was carried out to determine how their gender influenced their career aspiration. Questionnaires were administered to students from two selected schools of Architecture in South-West, Nigeria. Interviews were also carried out. It was discovered that although most of the students wished to remain in the field of architecture regardless of their genders, most of them do not want to remain forever. Their career aspirations although similar, were in different preferential orders. For the male students the order beginning from the most preferred was animation, fashion, entrepreneurship, programming, furniture design, construction, interior design, piloting, real estate, agriculture, writing/blogging, automobile design and catering while for the females the choices in similar order was interior design, entrepreneurship, writing/blogging, fashion, animation, construction, catering, real estate, agriculture, furniture design, piloting and programming