The context of workplace sex discrimination:Sex composition, workplace culture and relative power

Social Forces

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1165-1188

  Stainback, Kevin ^a   Ratliff, Thomas N ^b   Roscigno, Vincent J ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80051614699     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/89.4.1165     Document Type: Article

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