Resumen de Breaking boundaries: women in higher education

Simonetta Polenghi, Tanya Fitzgerald

• Over the last century, higher education has profoundly changed the contours of women’s lives. While securing an academic or professional qualification has significantly opened up opportunities for educated women, the shifting possibilities for work have not been uniformly experienced. Themes of resistance, moral outrage, and bureaucratic invisibility emerge to highlight the continuities and discontinuities women faced irrespective of circumstance of national identity