"Feminine" Workplaces: Stereotype and Reality

The Handbook of Language and Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 572-599

  Holmes, Janet ^a   Stubbe, Maria ^b  

^a Royal Society of New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Culture; Social interaction; Social patterns; Stereotyping; Workplace interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948976131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756942.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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