‘She's not good with crying’: the effect of gender expectations on graduate students' assessments of their principal investigators

Gender and Education

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 601-617

  Hirshfield, Laura E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

academia; faculty; gender; qualitative methods; science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916207307     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2014.940036     Document Type: Article

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