'Oh you must be very clever!' High-achieving women, professional power and the ongoing negotiation of workplace identity

Gender and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-236

  Gill, Judith ^a   Mills, Julie ^a   Franzway, Suzanne ^a   Sharp, Rhonda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Educational achievement; Engineering; Professional identity; Workplace culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149130932     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250801968990     Document Type: Article

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