The "Bad Parent" Assumption: How Gender Stereotypes Affect Reactions to Working Mothers

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 704-724

  Okimoto, Tyler G ^a   Heilman, Madeline E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; PARENTAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 84871158834     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01772.x     Document Type: Article

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