Now Hiring! Empirically Testing a Three-Step Intervention to Increase Faculty Gender Diversity in STEM

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1084-1087

  Smith, Jessi L ^a   Handley, Ian M ^a   Zale, Alexander V ^a   Rushing, Sara ^a   Potvin, Martha A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral science; diversity; science education and policy; women in science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947575676     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv138     Document Type: Review

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