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Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in STEM: Does Field Sex Composition Matter?

Katherine Michelmore, Sharon Sassler
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2016, 2 (4) 194-215; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.4.07
Katherine Michelmore
aAssistant professor in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs at Syracuse University
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Sharon Sassler
bProfessor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University
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