Stemming the tide: Predicting women engineers' intentions to leave

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 281-294

  Singh, Romila ^a   Fouad, Nadya A ^b   Fitzpatrick, Mary E ^c   Liu, Jane P ^b   Cappaert, Kevin J ^b   Figuereido, Catia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Career decisions; Social cognitive career theory; Turnover intentions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887167511     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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