Gendered Career Choice: Is sex-stereotyping the cause or the consequence?

Educational Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-146

  Lightbody, Pauline ^a   Durndell, Alan ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1842429496     PISSN: 03055698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305569960220201     Document Type: Article

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