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Women are now the majority of undergraduates across the industrialized world. Have universities become more inclusive as a result, in what they teach and how they teach it? Or are there simply more and more women feeling oppressed by a male academic culture?
Neither, Jocey Quinn reports in Powerful Subjects: Are Women Really Taking Over the University? (Stylus Publishing, Sterling VA, 2003, $29.95). Her study of 21 women students in northern England led to an unexpected conclusion: While still pushed to the margins, women take ownership of the university as a safe and empowering place to be.
Media claims of a female takeover are fueled by paranoia. ...