One: The Status of Women in Higher Education -- 1. Women and higher education: Trends and perspectives -- Two: Politics and Policies in Nation States -- 2. Women's education in the U.S.S.R.: 1950โ{128}{147}1985 -- 3. Continuity and change in women's access to higher education in the People's Republic of China, 1930โ{128}{147}1980 -- 4. Women in higher education in Africa: Access and choices -- 5. Feminist reflections on the Peruvian university politics -- 6. Public and higher education policies influencing African-American women -- 7. Educational reforms โ{128}{148} Women's life patterns: A Swedish case study -- 8. Public-private tendencies within higher education in Norway from a women's perspective -- 9. Women in higher education: Effects of crises and change -- Three: Women in the Academic Workforce and the Economy -- 10. Women in the academic profession: Evolution or stagnation? -- 11. Women at the top: Female full professors in higher education in Israel -- 12. The situation of women in research universities in the United States: Within the inner circles of academic power -- 13. Influences on women's entry into male-dominated occupations -- 14. Access, equity, and outcomes: Women students' participation in Nigerian higher education -- 15. Study abroad: A competitive edge for women? -- 16. Gender, wages and the labour market for tertiary graduates in Australia -- Four: Looking for Alternatives in Higher Education: Women's Studies -- 17. Feminist scholarship and the American Academy -- 18. Feminist scholarship as a vocation -- 19. Integrating women into the curriculum: Multiple motives and mixed emotions -- 20. Women's Studies in India -- Five: Bibliography -- Women and higher education: A bibliography