MARY ANN DANOWITZ SAGARIA is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Denver, USA, and Fulbright Professor at the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations at the Vienna University for Economics and Business Administration.

Topic addresses subjects in both Europe and United States and will be important for global European-styled universities (e.g., Australia, South Africa, etc.) and beyond (e.g., Japan)

Reframing Gender Equality as University Adaptation-; M.A.Danowitz Sagaria Pushing the Gender Equality Agenda Forward in the European Union-; T. Rees Between Change and Resistance: Gender Structures and Gender Cultures in German Institutions of Higher Education; U. Müller Gender Equality Challenges and Higher Education Reform: A Case Study University of Dortmund; C. Roloff Gender Equity and Higher Education Reform in Austria; A. Pellert & M. Gindl University Adaptation and Gender Equality: A Case Study of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; B. Sporn Women in Universities in Finland: Relative Advances and Continuing Contradictions; L. Husu Promotion of Gender Equality in the University of Helsinki; L. Husu & T. Saarikoski Gender and UK Higher Education: Postfeminism in a Market Economy; L. Morley Personal Learning on Professional Doctorates: Feminist and Women's Contributions to Higher Education; M. E. David Gender Equality in the American Research University: Renewing the Agenda for Women's Rights; J. Glazer-Raymo Academic Excellence and Gender Equality at The Ohio State University; M. A. Danowitz Sagaria & P. S. Van Horn Helping or Hurting Women? The Case of a Dual Career Couple Policy at the University of Kansas; S. Rice , L. Wolf-Wendel & S. Twombly Frames, Changes, Challenges, and Strategies; M.A. Danowitz Sagaria & L. J. Agans

This volume analyzes how higher education responses to sociopolitical and economic influences affect gender equality at the nation-state and university levels in the European Union and the United States.