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Women’s Learning Lives
Feminism, Gender and Universities
Series: Research into Higher Education
Women’s learning and education came alive in the second half of the 20th century, as women’s lives were transformed through global socio-economic, familial and political changes. Given that women now make up a slight majority of undergraduate students in universities globally and in the UK, this...
To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education
Series: Improving Learning
Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and gender backgrounds within higher education, and for adults across the life course. Edited by...
Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge
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Negotiating the Glass Ceiling
Careers of Senior Women in the Academic World
Why is it that in many universities the number of women professors can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand while the number of men number in the hundreds? Why are women academics so relatively disadvantaged and men so firmly in control?In an attempt to find answers to these questions...
Published December 18th 1997 by Routledge