The impact of gender characteristics on mentoring in Graduate Departments of Sociology

American Sociologist

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 307-323

  Dua, Priya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Departmental climate; Faculty; Gender; Graduate students; Higher education; Mentoring; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549094848     PISSN: 00031232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12108-008-9053-y     Document Type: Article

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