Barriers Facing Women in the IT Work Force

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 58-78

  Riemenschneider, Cynthia K ^a   Armstrong, Deborah J ^a   Allen, Myria W ^a   Reid, Margaret F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Revealed Causal Mapping; Turnover; Women in Information Technology; Workplace Barriers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985952681     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1185335.1185345     Document Type: Article

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