Exploring ourselves: Exploiting and resisting gendered identities of women academics in accounting and management

Pacific Accounting Review

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-204

  Haynes, Kathryn ^a   Fearfull, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Accounting; Careers; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015360384     PISSN: 01140582     EISSN: 20415494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01140580810892508     Document Type: Article

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