Gender Equality Programmes in Higher Education

Dr. Sabine Grenz is postdoc researcher at the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Dr. Beate Kortendiek is the coordinator of the Women's Research Network NRW at the Technische Universitat Dortmund. Dr. Marianne Kriszio is Gender Equality Officer at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. Dr. Andrea Lother is project manager at the Center of Excellence Women and Science (CEWS), Bonn.

• Gender Equality Programmes in Higher Education — Introduction.- Options of Knowledge — Opportunities in Science.- The Success of Female Scientists in the 21st Century.- Cooling Out? Gender and Research in Switzerland.- Evaluation of Gender Equality Policies.- Pathways to Success for Women Scientists in Higher Education in the US.- Gender Equality as Organizational Change Frames, Challenges, and Strategies in the European Union and the United States.- ‘Keeping your Eye on the Prize’: Gender Equality Programmes in Enterprise Universities.- Balancing and Optimising Gender Mainstreaming at German Universities.- Political Will is Not Enough Results from the Evaluation of a Pilot Scheme for Implementing Gender Mainstreaming.- Promoting Women Researchers through Mentoring Eument-Net as a Basis for a European Network of Mentoring Programmes for Women in Academia and Research.- Where is the Key to Success? A Comparative Evaluation of Mentoring Programmes for Outstanding Female Scientists in Natural Science, Engineering, Social Sciences and Medicine.- Leading Women: The Positive Impact of Women and Leadership Programs.- Balancing Career and Family in Higher Education — New Trends and Results.- Gender Equality Programmes: Recommendations of the 5th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education 2007 at Humboldt-Univesität zu Berlin.

"[...] die hier in sehr anschaulicher Form vorgestellten Studien und Programme [tragen] zu einem schrittweisen Bewusstseinswandel all derer bei, die uber Qualitat in Forschung und Lehre entscheiden. Uberdies liefern die Autorinnen und Autoren weiteres wichtiges Material fur eine produktive Auseinandersetzung auf dem Weg zur 'Excellence under conditions of fairness' [...]." www.zpol.de (Zeitschrift fur Politikwissenschaft), 20.01.2009