ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the changing forms of gender equality in higher education (HE) over the last several decades. Committed to global gender equality across and including all levels of education it presented a strong case but different from feminism. The culture of global higher education remains impervious to and intransigent to change towards gender and social justice. The global economic crisis is deepening inequalities, made worse by cuts in education budgets and stagnating development support. Gender equality is one of the six goals of the global Education for All campaign that UNESCO leads. The European Union (EU) and the European Commission (EC) through their various organizations have also developed statistics about gender equality, especially through Eurostat, also through the European Research Area, and the European Science Foundation (ESF). The New Labour administration set up a women and equalities unit in the late twentieth century which was moved between departments and administrative units over a ten-year period.
