Against the tide: Gendered prejudice and disadvantage in engineering

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-129

  Küskü, Fatma ^a   Özbilgin, Mustafa ^b   Özkale, Lerzan ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Career choice; Engineering study; Gender; Prejudice; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; GENDER ISSUE; HIGHER EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; STUDENT;

EID: 33847417198     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: 14680432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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