Low Awareness of Occupational Segregation and the Gender Pay Gap: No Changes Over a 16-year Span

Current Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 373-389

  Beyer, Sylvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief in a just world; Gender discrimination; Gender stereotyping; Modern sexism; Occupational segregation; Pay gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992035131     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: 19364733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-016-9521-4     Document Type: Article

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