Choice of major: The changing (unchanging) gender gap

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 289-313

  Turner, Sarah E ^a   Bowen, William G ^a  

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EID: 0000093081     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979399905200208     Document Type: Article

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