Breaking barriers and creating inclusiveness: Lessons of organizational transformation to advance women faculty in academic science and engineering

Human Resource Management

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-441

  Bilimoria, Diana ^a   Joy, Simy ^a   Liang, Xiangfen ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Inclusion; Managers; Part time; Reduced load; Support

Indexed keywords

EID: 51549093664     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20225     Document Type: Review

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