Women and academic workloads: Career slow lane or Cul-de-Sac?

Higher Education

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-155

  Barrett, Lucinda ^a   Barrett, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Career progression; Higher education; Workload allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650220157     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-010-9329-3     Document Type: Article

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