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

The first section of this book discusses the position of women students and academics in selected countries by studying trends, relationships and contradictions. Some surprising facts are unearthed: only 26 per cent of academics in Australia are women; in Bulgaria, half the engineering students are women; in Norway there are equal numbers of male and female students and in Iran 32 per cent of women go onto higher education.;The second section develops a model for analyzing the data, and the third section is devoted to an investigation of the nature of the gender gap among students and teachers in each of the countries considered. The final section attempts to predict future trends, revise existing theory and summarize successful strategies for reducing gender inequality.