Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 1 Women and higher education: Trends and perspectives

Chapter 2 Women’s education in the U.S.S.R.: 1950–1985

Chapter 3 Continuity and change in women’s access to higher education in the People’s Republic of China, 1930–1980

Chapter 4 Women in higher education in Africa: Access and choices

Chapter 5 Feminist reflections on the Peruvian university politics

Chapter 6 Public and higher education policies influencing African-American women

Chapter 7 Educational reforms — Women’s life patterns: A Swedish case study

Chapter 8 Public-private tendencies within higher education in Norway from a women’s perspective

Chapter 9 Women in higher education: Effects of crises and change

Chapter 10 Women in the academic profession: Evolution or stagnation?

Chapter 11 Women at the top: Female full professors in higher education in Israel

Chapter 12 The situation of women in research universities in the United States: Within the inner circles of academic power

Chapter 13 Influences on women’s entry into male-dominated occupations

Chapter 14 Access, equity, and outcomes: Women students’ participation in Nigerian higher education

Chapter 15 Study abroad: A competitive edge for women?

Chapter 16 Gender, wages and the labour market for tertiary graduates in Australia

Chapter 17 Feminist scholarship and the American Academy

Chapter 18 Feminist scholarship as a vocation

Chapter 19 Integrating women into the curriculum: Multiple motives and mixed emotions

Chapter 20 Women’s Studies in India