The science and politics of comparing women and men: A reconsideration

The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 11-28

  Eagly, Alice H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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