Sugar and spice and science: Encouraging girls through media mentoring

Current Issues in Education

Volumn 8, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Gray, Jennifer B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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