Gender-Role Attitudes, Perceptions of Engineering, and Beliefs About Women in Engineering "Having it All": Are Male and Female Engineering Undergraduates Really So Different?

Alberta Journal of Educational Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 376-379

  Haines, Valerie A ^a,b   Wallace, Jean E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Department of Sociology ^*  (Canada)

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