Choices and barriers: Factors influencing women's choice of higher education in science, engineering and technology

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 85-95

  Siann, Gerda ^a   Callaghan, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 31144459607     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03098770020030524     Document Type: Article

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