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.< 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.< Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria is Professor and Director of the Higher Education Program, College of Education, University of Denver.< Reframing Gender Equality as University Adaptation--Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria * Pushing the Gender Equality Agenda Forward in the European Union--Teresa Rees * Between Change and Resistance: Gender Structures and Gender Cultures in German Institutions of Higher Education--Ursula Müller * Gender Equality Challenges and Higher Education Reform: A Case Study University of Dortmund--Christine Roloff * Gender Equity and Higher Education Reform in Austria--Ada Pellert & Michaela Gindl * University Adaptation and Gender Equality: A Case Study of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration--Barbara Sporn * Women in Universities in Finland: Moving Closer to Gender Equality--Liisa Husu * Promotion of Gender Equality in the University of Helsinki--Liisa Husu & Terhi Saarikoski * Gender and UK Higher Education: Postfeminism in a Market Economy--Louise Morley * Personal Learning on Professional Doctorates: Feminist and Women's Contributions to Higher Education--Miriam E. David * Gender Equality in the American Research University: Renewing the Agenda for Women's Rights--Judith Glazer-Raymo * Academic Excellence and Gender Equality at The Ohio State University--Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria & Pamela S. Van Horn * Helping or Hurting Women? The Case of a Dual Career Couple Policy at the University of Kansas--Suzanne Rice, Lisa Wolf-Wendel & Susan Twombly * Frames, Changes, Challenges, and Strategies--Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria & Lyndsay J. Agans   Read Less