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Crafting a Career

The Psychology of Women at Work: Challenges and Solutions for our Female Workforce. Edited by Michele A. Paludi, Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, 2008. 620 pp. $250.00 (hardback). ISBN-10: 0275996772

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Fuegen, K. Crafting a Career. Sex Roles 62, 146–149 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-009-9718-1

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