An exploratory study of students' constructions of gender in science, engineering and technology

Gender and Education

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 567-581

  Lynch, Ingrid ^a   Nowosenetz, Tessa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b Institute for Women's and Gender Studies   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Constructions of gender; Discourse analysis; Engineering and technology education; Gender equity; Science; South Africa; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449433160     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250802555424     Document Type: Article

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