Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: STEMing the Tide and Broadening Participation in STEM Careers

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-29

  Dasgupta, Nilanjana ^a   Stout, Jane G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement; diversity; gender; STEM; stereotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051214421     PISSN: 23727322     EISSN: 23727330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2372732214549471     Document Type: Article

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