Sexism, vocational goals, and motivation as predictors of men's and women's career choice

Sex Roles

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 267-272

  Fernández, Maria Lameiras ^a   Castro, Yolanda Rodríguez ^a   Otero, Maria Calado ^a   Foltz, Marika L ^a   Lorenzo, Manuel González ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Motivation; Sexism; Vocational goals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845444068     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9079-y     Document Type: Article

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