"What I wanted to do was..." Discrepancies Between College Women's Desired and Reported Responses to Gender Prejudice

Sex Roles

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 344-355

  Brinkman, Britney G ^a   Garcia, Kelley ^a   Rickard, Kathryn M ^b  

^a CHATHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs and benefits; Daily diaries; Gender prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960977662     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-0020-7     Document Type: Article

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