HUNGARIAN WOMEN RESEARCHERS IN UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD

The article examines the question of female employment in the domain of research in Hungary during the inter‐war period. Generalizations about the situation of women are interspersed with case examples of successful women researchers. In technical and scientific fields, women ran into more opposition to their being employed than in the more literary fields, but there were notable exceptions to this rule. Women who were trained in the various areas of chemistry had a variety of opportunities. Women who came from families in which other family members were involved in scientific and academic careers fared better than women who did not come from this type of background.