Synopses & Reviews
Contemporary scholars of higher education change tend to overlook gender, and gender scholars tend to overlook higher education adaptation. Women, Universities, and Change demonstrates a deep commitment to leading and documenting change in higher education, especially that relating to gender equality and to recognizing the influence that women have in that process. The contributors have been devoted to creating scholarship in the areas of higher education, organizations, policy, employment, feminist sociology, and women's studies. In this important volume, the authors analyze how higher education's responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States. They do this by examining strategic responses to key contextual and environmental factors and their impact on gender equality in higher education and by identifying ingredients for promoting gender equality within the structures and cultures of universities.
Review
"It is an indispensable source of information for academia, students, administrators, and policymakers who devote themselves to the question of how to effectively promote gender equality in higher education." - Equal Opportunities International
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Mary Ann Danowitz is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Leadership, Policy and Adult and Higher Education in the College of Education at North Carolina State University.
Table of Contents
Reframing Gender Equality as University Adaptation;
M.A.D.SagariaPushing the Gender Equality Agenda Forward in the European Union; T.Rees
Between Change and Resistance: Gender Structures and Gender Cultures in German Institutions of Higher Education; U.Müller
Gender Equality Challenges and Higher Education Reform: A Case Study University of Dortmund; C.Roloff
Gender Equity and Higher Education Reform in Austria; A.Pellert & M.Gindl
University Adaptation and Gender Equality: A Case Study of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; B.Sporn
Women in Universities in Finland: Relative Advances and Continuing Contradictions; L.Husu
Promotion of Gender Equality in the University of Helsinki; L.Husu & T.Saarikoski
Gender and UK Higher Education: Postfeminism in a Market Economy; L.Morley
Personal Learning on Professional Doctorates: Feminist and Women's Contributions to Higher Education; M.E.David
Gender Equality in the American Research University: Renewing the Agenda for Women's Rights; J.Glazer-Raymo
Academic Excellence and Gender Equality at The Ohio State University; M.A.D.Sagaria & P.S.Van Horn
Helping or Hurting Women? The Case of a Dual Career Couple Policy at the University of Kansas; S.Rice, L.Wolf-Wendel & S.Twombly
Frames, Changes, Challenges, and Strategies; M.A.D.Sagaria & L.J.Agans