More women are receiving advanced degrees and ascending to the ranks of deans, provosts, and presidents, but despite gains in advancing gender equality, efforts at true empowerment are still met with significant resistance within academia. The contributors to this collection are committed to promoting the issue of gender and empowering women in higher education.The approach of this book is both theoretical and applied. On one level it evaluates pedagogy from the perspective of what we teach, how we teach, and curriculum development that enables and empowers women. On the other level it examines the institutional barriers that continue to exist that thwart the educational development of women while also examining the areas in which institutional support does promote efforts toward change.Women are the growing majority population, yet women in higher education are not provided an equal education. This book includes strategies for change, teaching suggestions, and curriculum development ideas.

Evaluates the ways in which faculty, administration, and programs in a university provide women with the necessary tools for leadership and growth.

Introduction by JoAnn DiGeorgio-LutzExpanding the Academic Knowledge Base: Helping Students to Cross Gender's Great Divide by Margaret Konz SnooksTeaching About Gender Through Experience: A Pedagogy of Engagement by Cindy Simon RosenthalHomeless in Academia: Homesteading as a Strategy for Change in a World of Hegemonic Masculinity by Annica KronsellFeminism and Interdisciplinarity by Sharlene Hesse-BiberWomen in Art: A Continuing Controversy by J. Susan IsaacsRadical Learning: A New Vision of Feminist Pedagogy by Peggy DouglasBeyond Gender and Heterosexuality: Teaching Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson in an Undergraduate Classroon by Justyna KostkawskaA Model for Evaluating Gender Equity in Academe by Kenneth L. Miller and Susan M. MillerThe Transformative Leadership of Women in Higher Education Administration by Margaret MaddenInstitutional Barriers for Women Scientists and Engineers: What Four Years of Survey Data of NSF POWRE Awardees Reveal by Sue V. RosserThe Backlash Against Women's Studies by Bonnie J. MorrisBibliographyIndex