Explaining the gender wage gap in STEM: Does field sex composition matter?

RSF

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 194-215

  Michelmore, Katherine ^a   Sassler, Sharon ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gender wage gap; Scientists and engineers; Women in STEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012120213     PISSN: 23778253     EISSN: 23778261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2016.2.4.07     Document Type: Article

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