Abstract:

This research aims at identifying the policies and strategies followed by some European Union countries to increase women’s involvement in the administration of higher education and at making suggestions concerning the system of higher education in Turkey. The research data were obtained through a review of higher education statistics related to EU countries, UN CEDAW reports and of relevant literature. The universe of the study includes all the EU countries and Turkey. However, only after literature review was it possible to reach some of the EU countries. The research findings are as in what follows: Some of the EU countries hold national policies on achieving gender equality in the administration of higher education. Several incentive regulations were made in some EU countries at institutional levels and at individual levels so as to ensure equality between genders in having access to higher education, especially to post-graduate education. Strategies are pursued and projects are generated in some EU countries so as to support female students’ and women’s participation in such fields as sciences, technology and engineering, in which administrators are appointed. In some EU countries, feminist education classes are offered

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