Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective

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Women and higher education: Trends and perspectives

• Gail P. Kelly, Sheila S. Slaughter

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

• Patricia M. Ratliff

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

• Grace C. L. Mak

Women in higher education in Africa: Access and choices

• Eva M. Rathgeber

Feminist reflections on the Peruvian university politics

• Nelly P. Stromquist

Public and higher education policies influencing African-American women

• Beverly Lindsay

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

• Inga Elgqvist-Saltzman

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

• Hildur Ve, Nina Fjelde

Women in higher education: Effects of crises and change

• Margaret Sutherland

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Women in the academic profession: Evolution or stagnation?

• Marie Eliou

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

• Nina Toren

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

Influences on women’s entry into male-dominated occupations

• Corinna A. Ethington, John C. Smart, Ernest T. Pascarella

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

• Karen Biraimah

Study abroad: A competitive edge for women?

• Susan Opper

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

• Jan Currie