College students' descriptions of everyday gender prejudice

Sex Roles

Volumn 61, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 461-475

  Brinkman, Britney G ^a,b   Rickard, Kathryn M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Perpetrators of gender prejudice; Setting of gender prejudice; Targets of gender prejudice; Types of gender prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350192035     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9643-3     Document Type: Article

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