Whose Jobs Are These? The Impact of the Proportion of Female Managers on the Number of New Management Jobs Filled by Women versus Men

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 509-541

  Cohen, Lisa E ^a   Broschak, Joseph P ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

demography; gender; inequality; job creation; labor markets; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887548477     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839213504403     Document Type: Article

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