No longer "one of the boys": Negotiations with motherhood, as prospect or reality, among women in engineering

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-166

  Ranson, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 24144475264     PISSN: 00084948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618x.2005.tb02459.x     Document Type: Review

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