Professional women's mid-career satisfaction: An empirical exploration of female engineers

Women in Management Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-23

  Auster, Ellen R ^a   Ekstein, Karen L ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Costs; Labour; Librarians; Pay; Retirement; United States of America

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EID: 19644387947     PISSN: 09649425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09649420510579540     Document Type: Article

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