Effects of a women-in-sciences/men-in-humanities intervention on Taiwanese adolescents' attitudes towards learning science

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 322-335

  Chiu, Mei Shiu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Academic gender stereotypes; Gender differences; Science learning attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052548794     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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