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Nascimento, B.D.S. (2018). Enhancing Women’s Competitiveness. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2813-1
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