Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.