'Just because you can get a wheelchair in the building doesn't necessarily mean that you can still participate': Barriers to the career advancement of disabled professionals

Disability and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 705-717

  Wilson Kovacs, Dana ^a   Ryan, Michelle K ^a   Haslam, S Alexander ^a   Rabinovich, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disability; Glass cliff; Leadership; Precariousness

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249090338     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: 13600508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09687590802469198     Document Type: Article

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