Women, universities, and change [[electronic resource] ] : gender equality in the European Union and the United States / / edited by Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.1/982
• Soggetto topico: Women - Education (Higher) - Europe; Women - Education (Higher) - United States; Women college teachers - Europe; Women college teachers - United States; Women college administrators - Europe; Women college administrators - United States; Education, Higher - Europe - Administration; Education, Higher - United States - Administration; Sex discrimination in higher education - Europe; Sex discrimination in higher education - United States; Feminism and education
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SagariaMary Ann Danowitz
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Administration7 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 University13 Helping or Hurting Women? The Case of a Dual Career Couple Policy at the University of Kansas; 14 Frames, Changes, Challenges, and Strategies; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women, universities, and change
• ISBN: 1-281-36357-X; 9786611363574; 0-230-60350-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450591203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Issues in higher education.