Women, universities, and change : gender equality in the European Union and the United States / edited by Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria.
Material type: TextSeries: Issues in higher education (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1403968446
- 9781403968449
- Gender equality in the European Union and the United States
- Women -- Education (Higher) -- Europe
- Women -- Education (Higher) -- United States
- Women college teachers -- Europe
- Women college teachers -- United States
- Women college administrators -- Europe
- Women college administrators -- United States
- Education, Higher -- Europe -- Administration
- Education, Higher -- United States -- Administration
- Sex discrimination in higher education -- Europe
- Sex discrimination in higher education -- United States
- Feminism and education
- 378.1982 22
- LC2036 .W65 2007
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"International Association of Universities.".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Refraining gender equality initiatives as university adaptation / Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria -- 2. Pushing the gender equality agenda forward in the European Union / Teresa Rees -- 3. Between change and resistance : gender structures and gender cultures in German institutions of higher education / Ursula Muller -- 4. Gender equality challenges and higher education reform : a case study University of Dortmund / Christine Roloff -- 5. Gender equity and higher education reform in Austria / Ada Pellert and Michaela Gindl -- 6. University adaptation and gender equality : a case study of the Vienna University of economics and business administration / Barbara Sporn -- 7. Women in universities in Finland : relative advances and continuing contraditions / Liisa Husu -- 8. Promotion of gender equality in the University of Helsinki / Liisa Husu and Terhi Saarikoski -- 9. Gender and U.K. higher education : post-feminism in a market economy / Louise Morley -- 10. Personal learning on professional doctorates : feminist and women's contributions to higher education / Miriam E. David -- 11. Gender equality in the American research university : renewing the agenda for women's rights / Judith Glazer-Raymo -- 12. Academic excellence and gender equality at Ohio State University / Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria and Pamela S. Van Horn -- 13. Helping or hurting women? : the case of a dual career couple policy at the University of Kansas / Suzanne Rice, Lisa E. Wolf-Wendel and Susan B. Twombly -- 14. Frames, changes, challenges, and strategies / Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria and Lyndsay Agans.
"This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States."--Publisher description.
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