The baby blanket or the briefcase: The impact of evangelical gender role ideologies on career and mothering aspirations of female evangelical college students

Sex Roles

Volumn 58, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 526-534

  Colaner, Colleen Warner ^a   Giles, Steven M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career aspirations; Evangelical women; Gender role ideologies; Mothering aspirations

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549111621     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-007-9352-8     Document Type: Article

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