Presenting Their Gendered Selves? How Women and Men Describe Who They Are, What They Have Done, and Why They Want the Job in Their Written Applications.
Occupational segregation is due, at least in part, to differences in what jobs women and men apply to and how they are evaluated. However, we know little about one mechanism that may relate to employers' evaluations and, therefore, to occupational segregation: how applicants present themselves to em...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 81; no. 9/10; pp. 610 - 627 |
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Springer Nature
Nov2019
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