Breadth-Based Models of Women's Underrepresentation in STEM Fields: An Integrative Commentary on Schmidt (2011) and Nye et al. (2012)

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 219-224

  Valla, Jeffrey M ^a   Ceci, Stephen J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (India)

Author keywords

cognitive sex differences; STEM underrepresentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897744887     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691614522067     Document Type: Article

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