Crumbling ivory towers: Academic organizing and its gender effects

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 194-212

  Benschop, Yvonne ^a   Brouns, Margo ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Academic organizing; Gender bias; Images of science; Social construction of scientific quality

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EQUITY; GENDER DISPARITY;

EID: 0037354010     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0432.t01-1-00011     Document Type: Article

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