Can Teams Help to Close the Gender Competition Gap?

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 555, 2011, Pages 1192-1204

  Healy, Andrew ^a   Pate, Jennifer ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER RELATIONS; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 80051756643     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02409.x     Document Type: Article

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