Zero-Sum Thinking and the Masculinity Contest: Perceived Intergroup Competition and Workplace Gender Bias

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 529-550

  Kuchynka, Sophie L ^a   Bosson, Jennifer K ^a   Vandello, Joseph A ^a   Puryear, Curtis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; STUDENT; WOMENS STATUS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 85053203851     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12281     Document Type: Article

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