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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Beyond the Degree: Men and Women at the Decision-Making Levels in British Higher Education.
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Brown, Lalage – Gender and Education, 1999
Analyzes gender and power in British universities, exploring the position of women in higher education over a 40-year span. Presents two case studies, one at a small technologically oriented university and one at a large mainstream university, of the implications of senior administrative work for the professional lives of academic women. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Development, Case Studies, College Administration
"High Class Cookery": Gender, Status and Domestic Subjects, 1890-1930.
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Bird, Elizabeth – Gender and Education, 1998
Traces the history of two British schools of cooking and domestic science and a university program in domestic science, relating the history of these institutions to the development of technical education by considering the intersection of status and gender. Contemporary parallels with separate space for women in higher education are outlined.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Food Service, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Educational Institutions or Extended Families? The Reconstruction of Gender in Women's Colleges in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.
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Edwards, Elizabeth – Gender and Education, 1990
Examines the world of women's colleges in Victorian Britain, presenting much biographical information and period detail, with an aim toward illuminating the emotional and sexual dynamics of this milieu. (DM)
Descriptors: College Environment, Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Lesbianism