Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kelly, G.P. (Editor), Slaughter, S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • One: The Status of Women in Higher Education
  • 1. Women and higher education: Trends and perspectives
  • Two: Politics and Policies in Nation States
  • 2. Women’s education in the U.S.S.R.: 1950–1985
  • 3. Continuity and change in women’s access to higher education in the People’s Republic of China, 1930–1980
  • 4. Women in higher education in Africa: Access and choices
  • 5. Feminist reflections on the Peruvian university politics
  • 6. Public and higher education policies influencing African-American women
  • 7. Educational reforms — Women’s life patterns: A Swedish case study
  • 8. Public-private tendencies within higher education in Norway from a women’s perspective
  • 9. Women in higher education: Effects of crises and change
  • Three: Women in the Academic Workforce and the Economy
  • 10. Women in the academic profession: Evolution or stagnation?
  • 11. Women at the top: Female full professors in higher education in Israel
  • 12. The situation of women in research universities in the United States: Within the inner circles of academic power
  • 13. Influences on women’s entry into male-dominated occupations
  • 14. Access, equity, and outcomes: Women students’ participation in Nigerian higher education
  • 15. Study abroad: A competitive edge for women?
  • 16. Gender, wages and the labour market for tertiary graduates in Australia
  • Four: Looking for Alternatives in Higher Education: Women’s Studies
  • 17. Feminist scholarship and the American Academy
  • 18. Feminist scholarship as a vocation
  • 19. Integrating women into the curriculum: Multiple motives and mixed emotions
  • 20. Women’s Studies in India
  • Five: Bibliography
  • Women and higher education: A bibliography