Why do Highly Qualified Women (Still) Earn Less? Gender Differences in Long-Term Predictors of Career Success

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-106

  Evers, Andrea ^a   Sieverding, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

agency; career development; career interruptions; family work relationship; salaries; sexism; working women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893012047     PISSN: 03616843     EISSN: 14716402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0361684313498071     Document Type: Article

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