What we "say" and what we "think" about female managers: Explicit versus implicit associations of women with success

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 252-266

  Latu, Ioana M ^a,c   Stewart, Tracie L ^a   Myers, Ashley C ^a   Lisco, Claire G ^a   Estes, Sarah Beth ^b   Donahue, Dana K ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

attitudes; employee attitudes; equity (payment); sex role attitudes; sexism; stereotyped attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958112062     PISSN: 03616843     EISSN: 14716402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0361684310383811     Document Type: Article

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