Causal attributions about success and failure in female leaders

Handbook on Gender Roles: Conflicts, Attitudes and Behaviors

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 169-188

  Garcia Retamero, Rocio ^a,b   López Zafra, Esther ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

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