Stereotype threat and perceptions of family-friendly policies among female employees

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2017, Pages

  von Hippel, Courtney ^a   Kalokerinos, Elise K ^b   Zacher, Hannes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Family friendly policies; Gender; Stereotype threat; Work family interface; Work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011961524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02043     Document Type: Article

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