Sounds, silences and contradictions: Gender equity in British commonwealth higher education*

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Thanks to the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the British Department for International Development (DFID) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York for sponsorship of this research project, to Annik Sorhaindo for help with the literature search and the statistical data and also to Penny Burke and Edwina Peart for earlier help with the literature search. Thanks to my research partners: Abiola Odejide in Nigeria, Chandra Gunawardena in Sri Lanka, Joy Kwesiga in Uganda, Amandina Lihamba in Tanzania and Lesley Shackleton and Cheryl De La Rey in South Africa. Thanks to Elaine Unterhalter and Anne Gold at the Institute of Education. Many thanks to ATN WEXDEV for their invitation to be the Clare Burton Memorial Lecturer and to Susan Magarey for helpful editorial comments. Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (Hogarth Press) London, 1938, p. 184. 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