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Gender Stereotypes Are Alive, Well, and Busy Producing Workplace Discrimination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Madeline E. Heilman  and
Alice H. Eagly
Madeline E. Heilman*
Affiliation:
New York University
Alice H. Eagly
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
*
E-mail: madeline.heilman@nyu.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Pl Room 576, New York, NY 10003
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 393 - 398
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Department of Psychology, New York University

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Department of Psychology, Northwestern University

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