Predicting women’s interest in and choice of a career in information technology a statistical model

Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology across Cultures and Continents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 15-38

  Creamer, Elizabeth G ^a   Lee, Soyoung ^a   Meszaros, Peggy S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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