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During the past 20 years various policy initiatives and organizational strategies to improve the representation of women and reduce inequalities in higher education have emerged in the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). There are currently three prevailing strategies for bringing about equality: 1) Gender mainstreaming in the EU public non-profit sector, 2) diversity management in the EU and US for-profit sectors, and 3) inclusive excellence in the nonprofit subsector of US higher education. From a feminist perspective much more is needed to improve the status of women in higher education as well as to become more inclusive to individuals whose ethnicity/race, sexual orientation, age, religion or beliefs, disability, or nationality may differ from those the dominant group. Despite the increasing complexity and importance of equality strategies and the large bodies of literature associated with the first two strategies, there is limited research comparing their attributes (e.g., Bendl 2004), and the third strategy has yet to be critically analyzed.
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Danowitz, M.A., Bendl, R. (2010). Gender Mainstreaming, Diversity Management and Inclusive Excellence: From Similarities and Differences to New Possibilities. In: Riegraf, B., Aulenbacher, B., Kirsch-Auwärter, E., Müller, U. (eds) GenderChange in Academia. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92501-1_27
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