Feeling more insecure than before: Women in academia in Turkey

2017-08-20
Beşpınar Akgüner, Fatma Umut
Aybars, Ayşe İdil
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F. U. Beşpınar Akgüner and A. İ. Aybars, “Feeling more insecure than before: Women in academia in Turkey,” 2017, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/82507.
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