Gender-bias primes elicit queen-bee responses among senior Policewomen

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1243-1249

  Derks, Belle ^a   van Laar, Colette ^a   Ellemers, Naomi ^a   de Groot, Kim ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

employment discrimination; intergroup dynamics; minority groups; stereotyped attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053526489     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611417258     Document Type: Article

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