Coping with stigma: A goal-directed perspective on self-regulation in social identity-threatening work and education fields KU Leuven
This dissertation examined the underrepresentation of certain groups in work and education fields, focusing on women in male-dominated fields (the police force, the military, and STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics] fields) and first-generation students at university. It has long been clear that this underrepresentation cannot be fully accounted for by inherent lower abilities or interest among these groups, and that ...