Child rearing as a career impediment to women assistant professors

Review of Higher Education

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 123-139

  Finkel, Susan Kolker ^a   Olswang, Steven G ^a  

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EID: 0039021441     PISSN: 01625748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.1996.0027     Document Type: Article

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