Gender patterns in college students' choices of their best and worst professors

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-35

  Basow, Susan A ^a   Phelan, Julie E ^a   Capotosto, Laura ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33645070559     PISSN: 03616843     EISSN: 14716402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6402.2006.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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