"Engineeresses" invade campus: Four decades of debate over technical coeducation

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-26

  Bix, Amy Sue ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

TECHNICAL COEDUCATION; WOMEN ENGINEERS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0034159494     PISSN: 02780097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/44.828560     Document Type: Article

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