International Conference on Universities for Women: Challenges and Perspectives were held between 1-3 February 2006. The Director of the Conference and the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Padmavati Women’s University, Dr. Veena Noble Dass visualized this conference out of which emerged a consortium of Women’s Universities of which Prof. Dass was nominated the chairperson.

The conference was attended by a large number of academicians, administrators as well as those interested in Women’s Education.

This Volume, the first of its kind, contains highly academic and intellectual presentations made at the conference. The papers presented cover a variety of areas like (a) Role of Women’s Universities in Science and Technology (b) Women’s Universities and Media Relation (c) Outreach program and community service in Women’s Universities (d) Curriculum challenge in Women’s Universities (e) Student’s needs and Solutions (f) Role of Women’s Studies in Women’s Universities and (g) Women’s Universities: Promotion of Entrepreneurship.

Thus the Volume will be useful to students, teachers, academicians and administrators who are interested in Women’s education.