Is Your Classroom Woman-Friendly?: Ten Strategies For Reaching This Goal

College Teaching

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 156-159

  Wasburn, Mara H ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender roles; mathematics; science; stereotypes; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349102890     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.52.4.156-159     Document Type: Article

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