Why aren't there more women in engineering: Can we really do anything?

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 7295-7307

  Anderson Rowland, Mary R ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASU ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MATHEMATICS; IN-SERVICE TEACHERS; PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PERSONNEL; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744285730     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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