Social Role Theory of Sex Differences and Similarities: Implications for the Sociopolitical Attitudes of Women and Men

Praeger Guide to the Psychology of Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 183-206

  Eagly, Alice H ^a   Mitchell, Abigail A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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