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Today women are outperforming men in college attendance and academic achievement. It's time to consider what this momentous change means for higher education and society. What forces are at play? What are the implications for higher education when women are a significant majority of students overall?
List of contents
Table of Contents
Author's Note
Introduction: The Rise of Women in Post-Secondary Education
Chapter 1. Participation of Women in Higher Education
Chapter 2. Global Perspectives on Women, Education, and Literacy
Chapter 3. Women's and Coeducational Colleges
Chapter 4. Women's Athletics in College and the Impact of Title IX
Chapter 5. Learning Outside the Academy
Chapter 6. Late 20th Century Scholarly and Pedagogical Approaches
Conclusion: What Does the Future Hold?
About the Author
Acknowledgments
References
Illustration Credits
Index
Index of Figures
1.02 Percentage of U.S. Bachelor Degrees Awarded to Women
1.03 College Degree Gender Gap by Age
1.05 Women Faculty in U.S.
1.06 Comparative Faculty Compensation by Gender
1.07 Women Professors by Institutional Type
1.08 Average Debt BS/BA
1.09 Difficulty Repaying Loans
2.01 Tertiary Degree by Gender (24-35-year-old)
2.02 Chart 2.2 Worldwide Fertility Rate Trend
2.03 Women's Wage Comparison to Men (Age 25-64)
2.04 Women's Representation by Discipline Worldwide
3.01 Number and Type of Higher Education Institutions Trend
4.03 Average # of Women's Varsity Teams Per School
4.04 Student Engagement Comparison
4.05 Net Revenue Athletic Program Comparison
4.06 Total Salaries and Benefits Division 1
5.01 Literary Reading by Gender Trend
Conclusion.02 Average Full-Time Wage Comparison by Gender
List of Illustrations
1.01 Nine African American women, full-length portrait, seated on steps of a building at Atlanta University, Georgia (1899), Askew, Thomas E., photographer (Library of Congress)
1.04 The Sky is Now Her Limit (1920), Illustration by Bushnell, reprinted in New York Times Current History (Library of Congress)
3.02 Seniors marching to chapel, Mt. [Mount] Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., 1908. Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Image 3.03 American Indian and African American students at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. 1900(?) - women studying human respiratory system, Johnston, Frances Benjamin, photographer (Library of Congress)
4.01 Women's Rowing Team, Potomac Boat Club (1919)
National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
4.02 1913-1914 basketball game, no. 38, Vassar College, May 1913
Wolven, E. L., photographer (Library of Congress)
5.02 Women Reading in Normal School, Washington D.C., (1899)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin (Library of Congress)
5.03 Woman writing. (1892). Phillips, John Edwin, (Library of Congress)
5.04 For the Benefit of the Girl About to Graduate (1890)
Charles Howard Johnson (Library of Congress)
6.01 Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York (1911)
(Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division)
Conclusion.01 Looking Backward (1912)
From Life, August 222, 1912, p. 1638 (Library of Congress)
Conclusion.03 Vinnie Ream at work upon her Lincoln bust which rests upon the stand she used in the White House while President Lincoln posed for her (1865-70) (Library of Congress).
About the author
By Gary A. Berg
Summary
Today women are outperforming men in college attendance and academic achievement. It's time to consider what this momentous change means for higher education and society. What forces are at play? What are the implications for higher education when women are a significant majority of students overall?
