The Fennema-Sherman mathematics as a male domain scale reexamined

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 346-348

  Forgasz, Helen J ^a   Leder, Gilah C ^a   Gardner, Paul L ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Equity; Gender issues; Social factors; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944479659     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749839     Document Type: Article

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