Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education in Asia Pacific

Deane E. Neubauer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, USA, and an adjunct fellow of the East-West Center, USA. Surinderpal Kaur is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.

• 1. Introduction, Deane E. Neubauer and Surinderpal Kaur.- 2. Framing Gender Issues in Asia-Pacific Higher Education, Denise Cutbert, Molly N.N. Lee, Weiling Deng, and Deane Neubauer.- 3. Gender Issues in Asia Pacific Higher Education: Assessing the Data, Deane E. Neubauer.- 4. Women's Representation in the Academic Professions and Their Leadership Positions: Case Studies of Asia Pacific Higher Education, Hei-hang Hays Tang.- 5. Gender and (Re)building the Nation Through Innovation: Critical Perspectives on Recent Research Innovation Policy in Australia, Denise Cuthbert and Leul Tadesse Sidelil.- 6. Gender and Higher Education in India, Manasi Thapliyal Navani.- 7. Thinking of Gender: On the Way to Emancipatory Higher Education in the Globalizing China, Weiling Deng.- 8. Gender, Higher Education, and Earnings: The Case of Hong Kong, Linda Chelan Li and Iris Chui Ping Kam.- 9. Gender and leadership in Research Universities in Malaysia, Surinderpal Kaur.- 10. Changing Landscape of the Malaysian Higher Education: An Overview of Women's Glass Ceiling, Hazri Jamil, Ahmad Firdaus Ahmad Shabudin, Santhiram Raman, and Ooi Poh Ling.- 11. The Beginning of the End? Changes in Junior Colleges in Japanese Female Higher Education, Shangbo Li.- 12. Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutes: Current Status and Key Issues in South Korea, Minho Yeom.- 13. Women in Higher Education: A Vase-Breaking Theory by Female Technologists in Taiwan, Ya-Hsuan Wang.- 14. The Glass-Ceiling Facing Women Leaders in Thai Higher Education, Prompilai Buasuwan and Ratikorn Niyamajan.- 15. Conclusion, Deane Neubauer and Surinderpal Kaur.