The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education

Part I. Setting the Scene

1. Whither Women Graduates in the Knowledge Economy?
Mary-Louise Kearney

2. Women in American Higher Education: A Descriptive Profile
Carol Frances

3. Women in Chinese Higher Education: Educational Opportunities and Employability Challenges
Zhou Zhong, Fei Guo

4. Women, Leadership, and Organizational Culture in Higher Education: Lessons Learned from South Africa and Ghana
Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela, Yeukai A. Mlambo

Part II. Adjusting to Change

5. Gender and Academic Work at a Dutch University
Liudvika Leišytė, Bengü Hosch-Dayican

6. Female Academics in Greek Higher Education: Issues of Organizational Change, Economic Crisis and Social Responsibility
Antigoni Papadimitriou

7. Managing Modern Malaysia: Women in Higher Education Leadership
Louise Morley, Madeline Berma, Bahiyah Dato’Hj. Abdul Hamid

8. Women of Color Advancing to Senior Leadership in U.S. Academe
Belinda Lee Huang

9. Women’s Place in Academia: Case Studies of Italy and Switzerland
Gaële Goastellec, Massimiliano Vaira

Part III. Gender Equality?

10. Gender Equality in Academic Career Progression: A Matter of Time?
Mary Henkel

11. Women and Gender Equality in Higher Education?
Miriam E. David

12. Women Academic Researchers: Still Interlopers in the UK Academy?
Carole Leathwood

13. Women Teaching Languages in Higher Education: Voices from the European Union
Elisabeth Lillie

14. Early Career Women in Academia: An Exploration of Networking Perceptions
Terhi Nokkala, Bojana Ćulum, Tatiana Fumasoli

15. Beyond the Academic Glass Ceiling: Notes on the Situation of Women Professors in Brazil
Marília Moschkovich

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Gender Studies