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Gender Equality as Organizational Change Frames, Challenges, and Strategies in the European Union and the United States

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Envisioning gender equality measures as a dimension of university change opens new possibilities to rethink gender activism within the dominant framework of competitive markets and entrepreneurialism. Success will depend on persistent and consistent work over an extended time to adjust to external environmental change. Challenges to gender equality progress are inevitable, but good leaders and committed activists have not been daunted. Excellence in research and teaching calls for having the best talent in our universities, whatever their gender and background.

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Sabine Grenz Beate Kortendiek Marianne Kriszio Andrea Löther

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Danowitz, M.A. (2008). Gender Equality as Organizational Change Frames, Challenges, and Strategies in the European Union and the United States. In: Grenz, S., Kortendiek, B., Kriszio, M., Löther, A. (eds) Gender Equality Programmes in Higher Education. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91218-9_7

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