Women, Universities, and Change : Gender Equality in the European Union and the United States

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. This volume analyzes higher education's responses to sociopolitical and economic influences and how this affects gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Reframing Gender Equality Initiatives as University Adaptation....Pages 1-6 Pushing the Gender Equality Agenda Forward in the European Union....Pages 7-21 Between Change and Resistance: Gender Structures and Gender Cultures in German Institutions of Higher Education....Pages 23-41 Gender Equality Challenges and Higher Education Reform: A Case Study University of Dortmund....Pages 43-59 Gender Equity and Higher Education Reform in Austria....Pages 61-72 University Adaptation and Gender Equality: A Case Study of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration....Pages 73-88 Women in Universities in Finland: Relative Advances and Continuing Contraditions....Pages 89-111 Promotion of Gender Equality in the University of Helsinki....Pages 113-131 Gender and U.K. Higher Education: Post-Feminism in a Market Economy....Pages 133-144 Personal Learning on Professional Doctorates: Feminist and Women’s Contributions to Higher Education....Pages 145-160 Gender Equality in the American Research University: Renewing the Agenda for Women’s Rights....Pages 161-178 Academic Excellence and Gender Equality at Ohio State University....Pages 179-195 Helping or Hurting Women? The Case of a Dual Career Couple Policy at the University of Kansas....Pages 197-214 Frames, Changes, Challenges, and Strategies....Pages 215-222 Back Matter....Pages 223-228