The good, the bad and the ugly: Women engineering students' experiences of UK higher education

Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Upping the Numbers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 47-70

  Powell, Abigail ^a   Bagilhole, Barbara ^a   Dainty, Andrew ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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