Gender schemas, privilege, micro-messaging, and engineering education: Practical lessons from theory

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zastavker, Yevgeniya V ^a   Chachra, Debbie ^a   Lynch, Caitrin ^a   Sarang Sieminski, Alisha L ^a   Stein, Lynn Andrea ^a  

^a FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (United States)

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