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Overqualified Women: What Can Be Done About This Potentially Bad Situation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Aleksandra Luksyte  and
Christiane Spitzmueller
Aleksandra Luksyte*
Affiliation:
University of Houston
Christiane Spitzmueller
Affiliation:
University of Houston
*
E-mail: alexluksyte@gmail.com, Address: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX 77204-5022
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 256 - 259
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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