Henry the nurse is a doctor too: Implicitly examining children's gender stereotypes for male and female occupational roles

Sex Roles

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 670-683

  Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore ^a   Kee, Daniel W ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Gender role stereotypes; Implicit measures; Knowledge base access; Memory; Occupational roles; Social role theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952955040     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-010-9773-7     Document Type: Article

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