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Why so slow? : the advancement of women / Virginia Valian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.Description: xvii, 401 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0262220547 (hardcover : alk paper)
  • 9780262220545 (hardcover : alk paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1237 .V35 1998
Contents:
Gender schemas at work -- Gender begins--and continues--at home -- Learning about gender -- Biology and behavior -- Biology and cognition -- Schemas that explain behavior -- Evaluating women and men -- Effects on the self -- Interpreting success and failure -- Women in the professions -- Women in academia -- Professional performance and human values -- Affirmative action and the law -- Remedies.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HQ1237.V35 1998 1 Available 33710001112478

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-383) and indexes.

Gender schemas at work -- Gender begins--and continues--at home -- Learning about gender -- Biology and behavior -- Biology and cognition -- Schemas that explain behavior -- Evaluating women and men -- Effects on the self -- Interpreting success and failure -- Women in the professions -- Women in academia -- Professional performance and human values -- Affirmative action and the law -- Remedies.