Berg, G: Rise of Women in Higher Education

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?

Table of ContentsAuthor's NoteIntroduction: The Rise of Women in Post-Secondary EducationChapter 1. Participation of Women in Higher EducationChapter 2. Global Perspectives on Women, Education, and LiteracyChapter 3. Women's and Coeducational CollegesChapter 4. Women's Athletics in College and the Impact of Title IXChapter 5. Learning Outside the AcademyChapter 6. Late 20th Century Scholarly and Pedagogical ApproachesConclusion: What Does the Future Hold?About the AuthorAcknowledgmentsReferencesIllustration CreditsIndexIndex of Figures1.02 Percentage of U.S. Bachelor Degrees Awarded to Women1.03 College Degree Gender Gap by Age1.05 Women Faculty in U.S.1.06 Comparative Faculty Compensation by Gender1.07 Women Professors by Institutional Type1.08 Average Debt BS/BA1.09 Difficulty Repaying Loans2.01 Tertiary Degree by Gender (24-35-year-old)2.02 Chart 2.2 Worldwide Fertility Rate Trend2.03 Women's Wage Comparison to Men (Age 25-64)2.04 Women's Representation by Discipline Worldwide3.01 Number and Type of Higher Education Institutions Trend4.03 Average # of Women's Varsity Teams Per School4.04 Student Engagement Comparison4.05 Net Revenue Athletic Program Comparison4.06 Total Salaries and Benefits Division 15.01 Literary Reading by Gender TrendConclusion.02 Average Full-Time Wage Comparison by GenderList of Illustrations1.01 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 1913Wolven, 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).