The gender gap in higher education / edited by Suzanne Stiver Lie, Lynda Malik and Duncan Harris

Includes index and bibliography (pages 223-244)

Academic women in Australia : progress real or imagined? / Felicity Allen -- Batswana women in higher education : from systematic exclusion to selective engagement / P.T.M. Marope -- The nation's showcase : Bulgarian academic women, between the Scylla of totalitarianism and the Charybdis of change / Nicolina Sretenova -- Higher education in the People's Republic of China / Grace C.L. Mak -- 'Les femmes savantes' in France : under the glass ceiling / Jacqueline Feldman and Annie Morelle -- On the disparity of the sexes in German universities / Susanne Grimm and Uta Meier -- 2,5000 years after Plato : Greek women in higher education / Julia Balaska -- Women in higher education in Iran : tradition versus modernization / Tahereh Alavi Hojjat -- Women academics in The Netherlands : between exclusion and positive action / Greta Noordenbos -- Higher education in Norway : a nirvana of equality for women? / Suzanne Stiver Lie and Mari Teigen -- Women in higher education in Pakistan : separate but equal? / Lynda Malik and Neelam Hussain -- Women in Polish academe / Malgorzata Fuszara and Beata Grudzinska -- Gender stratification in Russian higher education : the matrioshka image / Marina Yu Morozova -- Higher education in Turkey : a gold bracelet for women / Feride Acar -- Two steps forward and one step back : women in higher education in the United Kingdom / Margaret B. Sutherland -- Academic women in the United States : problems and prospects / Helen S. Astin and Lynda Malik -- Gender stratification in Uzbek higher education : old traditions and new reality / Railiya Mukhsinovna Muqeemjanova and Gulnara Tukhilibaerna Quzibaeva -- Trends in the gender gap in higher education / Suzanne Stiver Lie and Lynda Malik