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Women, Universities, and Change : Gender Equality in the European Union and the United States.
Title:
Women, Universities, and Change : Gender Equality in the European Union and the United States.
Author:
Sagaria, M.
ISBN:
9780230603509
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (244 pages)
Series:
Issues in Higher Education
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors' Biographies -- 1 Reframing Gender Equality Initiatives as University Adaptation -- 2 Pushing the Gender Equality Agenda Forward in the European Union -- 3 Between Change and Resistance: Gender Structures and Gender Cultures in German Institutions of Higher Education -- 4 Gender Equality Challenges and Higher Education Reform: A Case Study University of Dortmund -- 5 Gender Equity and Higher Education Reform in Austria -- 6 University Adaptation and Gender Equality: A Case Study of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration -- 7 Women in Universities in Finland: Relative Advances and Continuing Contraditions -- 8 Promotion of Gender Equality in the University of Helsinki -- 9 Gender and U.K. Higher Education: Post-feminism in a Market Economy -- 10 Personal Learning on Professional Doctorates: Feminist and Women's Contributions to Higher Education -- 11 Gender Equality in the American Research University: Renewing the Agenda for Women's Rights -- 12 Academic Excellence and Gender Equality at Ohio State University -- 13 Helping or Hurting Women? The Case of a Dual Career Couple Policy at the University of Kansas -- 14 Frames, Changes, Challenges, and Strategies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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