Structural power and experienced job satisfactions: the empowerment paradox for women.
This study related the structural power of women's occupational roles to their job values, perceptions, satisfactions, and dissatisfactions regarding power and affiliation. For 110 mostly Caucasian college-educated women in their mid-30s returning mailed questionnaires, analyses compared women in r...
| Published in: | Sex Roles Vol. 30; pp. 347 - 370 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
March 1994
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