Stag Parties Linger: Continued Gender Bias in a Female-Rich Scientific Discipline

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Isbell, Lynne A ^a   Young, Truman P ^a   Harcourt, Alexander H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIMATE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLICATIONS; RESEARCH; SEXISM; SOCIETIES;

EID: 84869794833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049682     Document Type: Article

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