The Gender Gap in Higher Education. World Yearbook of Education 1994.

This book presents 19 essays that examine the relative position of men and women in higher education in 17 countries. The focus is on women, particularly their changing position in higher education as students, faculty, and administrators. The book also provides a comparison of countries in an attempt to arrive at a low-level theoretical proposition which can be tested in the future. Essays and their authors are as follows: "The Gender Gap in Higher Education: A Conceptual Framework" (Lynda Malik and Suzanne Stiver Lie); "Academic Women in Australia: Progress Real or Imagined?" (Felicity Allen); "Botswana 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 Charybois 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); "2,500 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); and "Trends in the Gender Gap in Higher Education" (Suzanne Stiver Lie and Lynda Malik). An index is included. Contains over 359 references. (GLR)