Does excellence have a gender?: A national research study on recruitment and selection procedures for professorial appointments in the Netherlands

Employee Relations

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 523-539

  Van Den Brink, Marieke ^a   Brouns, Margo ^a   Waslander, Sietske ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Discipline; Gender; Recruitment; Selection; The Netherlands; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750265239     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450610704470     Document Type: Article

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