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Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Gail P. Kelly
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  2. Sheila Slaughter
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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The status of women in higher education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Women and higher education: Trends and perspectives

      • Gail P. Kelly, Sheila S. Slaughter
      Pages 3-13

  3. Politics and policies in nation states

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Women’s education in the U.S.S.R.: 1950–1985

      • Patricia M. Ratliff
      Pages 17-30

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

      • Grace C. L. Mak
      Pages 31-46

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

      • Eva M. Rathgeber
      Pages 47-62

    5. Feminist reflections on the Peruvian university politics

      • Nelly P. Stromquist
      Pages 63-83

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

      • Beverly Lindsay
      Pages 85-102

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

      • Inga Elgqvist-Saltzman
      Pages 103-116

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

      • Hildur Ve, Nina Fjelde
      Pages 117-130

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

      • Margaret Sutherland
      Pages 131-142

  4. Women in the academic workforce and the economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Women in the academic profession: Evolution or stagnation?

      • Marie Eliou
      Pages 145-164

    3. Women at the top: Female full professors in higher education in Israel

      • Nina Toren
      Pages 165-184

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

      • Kathryn M. Moore, Mary Ann D. Sagaria
      Pages 185-200

    5. Influences on women’s entry into male-dominated occupations

      • Corinna A. Ethington, John C. Smart, Ernest T. Pascarella
      Pages 201-218

    6. Access, equity, and outcomes: Women students’ participation in Nigerian higher education

      • Karen Biraimah
      Pages 219-231

    7. Study abroad: A competitive edge for women?

      • Susan Opper
      Pages 233-248

    8. Gender, wages and the labour market for tertiary graduates in Australia

      • Jan Currie
      Pages 249-265
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

  • Editors: Gail P. Kelly, Sheila Slaughter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3816-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0800-3Published: 31 December 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5696-0Published: 06 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3816-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 359

  • Topics: International and Comparative Education

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