Excuse Me - What Did You Just Say?!: Women's Public and Private Responses to Sexist Remarks

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 68-88

  Swim, Janet K ^a   Hyers, Lauri L ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033475912     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jesp.1998.1370     Document Type: Article

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