American and Chinese college students' anticipations of their postgraduate education, career, and future family roles

Sex Roles

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 95-110

  Zhou, Ling Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST FRANCIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Role anticipation; The general sociocultural model; The role distribution theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845441112     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9063-6     Document Type: Article

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