Rankings in Higher Education: criteria for measuring Gender Equality in Universities

The main objective of this article is to consider which indicators should be incorporated into measurements of equality in Spanish universities. The article explores the idea that measuring equality can be interpreted from two different perspectives: either as a measure equivalent to parity or as a...

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Authors: Novo Arbona, Ainhoa, Silvestre, María, Martínez Hernández, Eva, Elizondo Lopetegui, Miren Arantxa
Format: article
Publication Date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Universidad del País Vasco
Repository:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/72268
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/72268
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:university rankings
gender equality
higher education
equality indicators
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Summary:The main objective of this article is to consider which indicators should be incorporated into measurements of equality in Spanish universities. The article explores the idea that measuring equality can be interpreted from two different perspectives: either as a measure equivalent to parity or as a measure equivalent to equity. The two approaches have distinct ideological and philosophical bases, and their operationalization provides different results in the classification of universities.