Computers and Career Choices: Gender Differences in Grades 7 and 10 Students

Gender Technology And Development

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 233-248

  Lupart, Judy ^a   Cannon, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 84993728836     PISSN: 09718524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097185240200600204     Document Type: Article

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