Does a truck driver see what a nurse sees? The effects of occupation type on perceptions of sexual harassment

Sex Roles

Volumn 56, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 801-810

  Maeder, Evelyn M ^a   Wiener, Richard L ^a   Winter, Ryan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Occupation; Responsibility; Sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547315556     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-007-9244-y     Document Type: Article

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