Engineering Careers in the UK: Still Not What Women Want?

Industry and Higher Education

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 403-412

  Hodgkinson, Liz ^a   Hamill, Les ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

engineering; gender; image; status; stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449115998     PISSN: 09504222     EISSN: 20436858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000006779882986     Document Type: Article

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