Gender equality in higher education. Miscellanea. Third European Conference (Genova, 13-16 aprile 2003)

The content of this publication is a selection of papers presented at the Third European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education held in Genoa in 2003, of which professor Maione was honoured to be the organisation chair.
This collection includes the essays of the participants who spontaneously agreed to let their contributions be published.
We believe that the reader will appreciate the scientific value of these contributions which show the different backgrounds and ways of working of the areas their authors come from, thus showing that the standards of high quality which we were aiming at when we organised the conference were reached in full.
We also hope that this publication may start a real debate on gender equality issues which probably lacked during the conference.