For universities the test for the future is to make the changes needed in broad areas within higher education from financial aid to curriculum, student activities, and overall campus culture in order to better foster a newly empowered majority of women students. Few to this date have recognized and chronicled this extraordinary change in college education-one of society’s fundamental and influential institutions. In all areas of the university disparities still exist in terms of compensation and balance in key areas of the academy, but the overall positive trend is clear. While top university presidents are still largely male, women have achieved real gains in the overall administrative ranks and trustee positions. At the same time, after years of a disproportionate dominant male professoriate, female faculty members are now becoming the majority of university professors. By the year 2000, women surpassed men worldwide in attendance at higher education institutions. thereby women on boards make more return. Now almost sixty percent of the overall college student population in America is female, and still growing. The need for women directors in Indian companies The legislature has taken a bold initiative in recognising women on boards and henceforth the provision for women directors has been mentioned in the landmark enactment, i.e,the Companies Act,2013.
The story of the American university in the past half century is about the rise of women in participation as students, faculty members, college athletes, and in subsequently changing the overall university culture for the better. Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers