The role of school performance in narrowing gender gaps in the formation of STEM aspirations: A cross-national study

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Mann, Allison ^a   Legewie, Joscha ^b   DiPrete, Thomas A ^a  

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

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Careers in science; Cross cultural research; Education; Engineering; Gender inequality; Mathematics; School context; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926658493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00171     Document Type: Article

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