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Academic Professional Women Organizing for Change: The Struggle in Psychology
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In this article, the organized efforts of women psychologists who confronted sex discrimination in two different historical periods: 1941-1959 and the period beginning in 1969, were examined and compared, and a long range perspective on social change for those working to improve the status of women in academe was offered.Abstract:
This paper examines the organized efforts of women psychologists who confronted sex discrimination in two different historical periods: 1941–1959 and the period beginning in 1969. During the first period, the National and then International Council of Women Psychologists promoted the advancement of women in the profession. During the more recent period, the Association for Women in Psychology and then APA's Division 35 have performed similar functions. Source material to document these efforts is drawn from published sources and archives of the history of American psychology at the University of Akron, and from the American Psychological Association Archives in the Library of Congress. The paper compares women's efforts during these two very different historical periods and offers a long range perspective on social change for those working to improve the status of women in academe.read more
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The role of reflexivity in feminist psychology
TL;DR: In this paper, the implications of a number of forms of reflexivity for feminist work within psychology are explored, and it is argued that reflexivity, particularly of the disciplinary form, is a potentially powerful agent for change within traditional academic disciplines, such as psychology, in that it can be self-consciously applied to advance the feminist challenge.
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“Feminization” of Psychology: The Changing Sex Ratio and Its Implications for the Profession
TL;DR: In this article, a review of statistical data relating to the changing sex ratio of women in psychology is presented, and the implications of changing sex ratios for occupational prestige, income and economics, work structure, education and training, and theory, research, and practice are discussed.
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Contributions of Women to Psychology
TL;DR: WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION in PSychology as discussed by the authors : The Emergence of Sex Segregation in Psychology and its Impact on Women's CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Women in the American Psychological Association.
TL;DR: The history of women in psychology would require a different approach and would extend well beyond this selective approach as discussed by the authors, since the first women qualified as psychologists at almost precisely the same time as the founding of the APA a hundred years ago.
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Small wins: Redefining the scale of social problems.
TL;DR: The strategy of small wins as mentioned in this paper incorporates sound psychology and is sensitive to the pragmatics of policymaking, where a series of concrete, complete outcomes of moderate importance build a pattern that attracts allies and deters opponents.
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The woman problem
TL;DR: Dr. Boring seeks to answer why it is the case that women are accorded less recognition than men in the professions and in public life by looking at underlying social dynamics.