EBOOK: Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education: A Feminized Future? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook EBOOK: Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education: A Feminized Future? write by Carole Leathwood. This book was released on 2008-12-16. EBOOK: Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education: A Feminized Future? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A notable feature of higher education in many countries over the last few decades has been the dramatic rise in the proportion of female students. Women now outnumber men as undergraduate students in the majority of OECD countries, fuelling concerns that men are deserting degree-level study as women overtake them both numerically and in terms of levels of achievement. The assertion is that higher education is becoming increasingly 'feminized' - reflecting similar claims in relation to schooling and the labour market. At the same time, there are persistent concerns about degree standards, with allegations of 'dumbing down'. This raises questions about whether the higher education system to which more women have gained access is now of less value, both intrinsically and in terms of labour market outcomes, than previously. This ground-breaking book examines these issues in relation to higher education in the UK and globally. It provides a thorough analysis of debates about 'feminization', asking: To what extent do patterns of participation continue to reflect and (re)construct wider social inequalities of gender, social class and ethnicity? How far has a numerical increase in women students challenged the cultures, curriculum and practices of the university? What are the implications for women, men and the future of higher education? Drawing on international and national data, theory and research, Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education provides an accessible but nuanced discussion of the 'feminization' of higher education for postgraduates, policy-makers and academics working in the field.
The Rise of Women in Higher Education
The Rise of Women in Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Women in Higher Education write by Gary A. Berg. This book was released on 2019-11-28. The Rise of Women in Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the American university in the past half century is about the rise of women in participation as students, faculty members, college athletes, and in subsequently changing the overall university culture for the better. Now almost sixty percent of the overall college student population in America is female, and still growing. By the year 2000, women surpassed men worldwide in attendance at higher education institutions. At the same time, after years of a disproportionate dominant male professoriate, female faculty members are now becoming the majority of university professors. While top university presidents are still largely male, women have achieved real gains in the overall administrative ranks and trustee positions. In all areas of the university disparities still exist in terms of compensation and balance in key areas of the academy, but the overall positive trend is clear. Few to this date have recognized and chronicled this extraordinary change in college education—one of society’s fundamental and influential institutions. For universities the test for the future is to make the changes needed in broad areas within higher education from financial aid to curriculum, student activities, and overall campus culture in order to better foster a newly empowered majority of women students.
Changing the Subject
Changing the Subject - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing the Subject write by Sue Davies. This book was released on 1994. Changing the Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Gendered Futures in Higher Education
Gendered Futures in Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gendered Futures in Higher Education write by Becky Ropers-Huilman. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Gendered Futures in Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume addresses the ways in which gender takes shape in and is shaped by higher education environments. Focusing on historical knowledge and contemporary experience, the contributors identify several key gender issues affecting students, faculty, and leaders in higher education. They examine such diverse topics as what lessons women's colleges have to offer, violence on campus, women faculty and part-time employment, and intersecting identities of race and gender, and they apply critical perspectives to suggest needed change. While they may not agree on the necessary strategies to improve higher education environments, they do agree that those environments are currently deeply and problematically gendered.
Degrees of Difference
Degrees of Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Degrees of Difference write by Nancy S. Niemi. This book was released on 2017-04-19. Degrees of Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume investigates the dissonance between the supposed advantage held by educated women and their continued lack of economic and political power. Niemi explains the developments of the so-called "female advantage" and "boy crisis" in American higher education, setting them alongside socioeconomic and racial developments in women’s and men’s lives throughout the last 40 years. Exploring the relationship between higher education credentials and their utility in creating political, economic, and social success, Degrees of Difference identifies ways in which gender and academic achievement contribute to women’s and men’s power to shape their lives. This important book brings new light to the issues of power, gender identities, and the role of American higher education in creating gender equity.
