Encouraging more female quantity surveying graduates to enter the construction industry in Singapore

Women in Management Review

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 431-436

  Yean Yng Ling, F ^a   Pei Poh, Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MINISTRY OF EDUCATION   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Employees; Human resource management; Quantity surveying; Singapore; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993012279     PISSN: 09649425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09649420410570234     Document Type: Article

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