Enabling possibility: Women associate professors' sense of agency in career advancement

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-76

  Terosky, Aimee Lapointe ^a   O'meara, Kerryann ^b   Campbell, Corbin M ^c  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; associate faculty; career advancement; promotion; women faculty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899119263     PISSN: 19388926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035775     Document Type: Article

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