Status of women in the American Psychological Association.

Mitchell, Mildred B.

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“…They faced restricted access to graduate education and training and had few opportunities for academic placement and advancement (Hogan & Sexton, 1991;Russo & Denmark, 1987;Scarborough & Furumoto, 1987). In 1942, the National Council of Women Psychologists was formed to redress these and related problems (Mitchell, 1951;see Bryan & Boring, 1944) De Meuse, 1987;Pfafflin, 1984;Scarborough, 1994). In 1970, just over 20% of the PhD recipients in psychology were women; in 2005, the percentage was nearly 72% (Cynkar, 2007).…”

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Trends in women’s participation at the meetings of the Association for Behavior Analysis: 1975–2005

2007

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We examined women's participation, relative to men's, at the annual meetings of the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) between 1975 and 2005. Among our findings are upward trends in female presenters across formats (e.g., posters), types of authorship (e.g., first authors), and specialty areas (e.g., autism). Where women have attained parity, however, they are still often underrepresented, given their percentage of membership. Women also participate less than men as sole and invited authors and discussants and in the domains of basic research and conceptual analysis, but participate more than men in the applied domain. Data from the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysisshow parallel but delayed trends toward parity in basic and applied research, whereas data from The Behavior Analyst show only modest gains in the conceptual domain. We discuss the gender disparities in ABA's more prestigious categories of participation (e.g., invited addresses) and across its content domains, as well as in science in general, and the role of social and cultural factors in producing the disparities and how behavior analysts might aid in correcting them.

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“…Desde la Literatura (Rich, 1972;Wolff, 1972;Showalter, 1977); la Antropología (Ortner, 1974;Slocum, 1975) o la Psicología (Mitchel, 1951;Rossi, 1965;Weisstein, 1971), empezó a construirse un corpus teórico-metodológico que reflexionaba sobre la omisión de las mujeres en la construcción del conocimiento y las distorsiones a las que se había sometido "lo femenino". No es de extrañar que también desde el ámbito educativo, a cuyo ejercicio profesional las mujeres habían comenzado a acceder de forma masiva, numerosas autoras (y algunos autores) comenzaran a desvelar la presencia de sexismo a nivel de estructura y funcionamiento.…”

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La investigación sobre libros de texto desde la perspectiva de género: ¿hacia la renovación de los materiales didácticos? / Research on textbooks from a gender perspective : Towards the renovation of educational materials

Rodríguez

2016

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RESUMENEl presente artículo repasa la tradición investigadora sobre mujeres y libros de texto en España, revisando las alternativas que se han propuesto para renovar y mejorar los mismos desde la perspectiva de género. La primera parte se dedica a realizar un exhaustivo recorrido por las metodologías empleadas y los hallazgos más destacados de las investigaciones del panorama nacional, emprendidos desde la década de los setenta hasta la actualidad. A continuación, se detallan las propuestas surgidas, en forma de nuevos materiales didácticos, campañas, recomendaciones y guías para incorporación de la perspectiva de género a los libros de texto. Por último, se lleva a cabo una serie de consideraciones finales, destacando la insuficiencia de los cambios acaecidos en la producción editorial y proponiendo algunas opciones alternativas que contribuyan a la renovación y la mejora de los libros de texto desde la perspectiva de género. PALABRAS CLAVE Libros de texto -género -mujeres -materiales didácticos -innovación. ABSTRACTThis article reviews the research tradition on women and textbooks in Spain, analysing the alternatives that have been proposed to renovate and improve them from a gender perspective. The first part reviews the methodologies used and the most important research findings on the national scene, undertaken since the seventies until today. Then, the article details the proposals emerged in the form of new teaching materials, campaigns, recommendations and guidelines. Finally, a final consideration epigraph highlights the lack of changes made in book production and proposes some alternatives that contribute to the renewal and improvement of textbooks from a gender perspective. KEYWORDSTextbooks -gender -women -didactic materials -innovation.

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“…Yet, even with their enhanced global perspective and a doubling of membership in 1949, some ICWP members persisted in the call to disband, staging a perennial “protest against its continued existence as a one‐sex organization” (Mitchell, 1951, p. 193). In 1949, ICWP members debated the pros and cons of pursuing affiliation as an APA division; to do so would require removing the word “women” from their name because APA refused to consider for affiliation any group limiting membership due to gender, race or creed.…”

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“…Although women composed almost one‐third of the total membership by 1949, only 14% of women members held Fellow status (compared to 25% of male members). As officers and editors, women were almost entirely absent, yet “only as secretaries are they serving in proportion to their numbers” (Mitchell, 1951, p. 200). She quoted the ICWP mission in her summary: “If status within the APA may be considered an adequate estimate of the achievement of women psychologists in America, then there still seems to be a need ‘to promote psychology as a science and as a profession, particularly with respect to the contribution of women’” (p. 200).…”

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Unfamiliar Feminisms: Revisiting the National Council of Women Psychologists

Johnson

Johnston

2010

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Second-generation women psychologists lived and worked between the two waves of organized feminist protest in the United States. This period is usually described as a time when feminist activity was suppressed or put on hold, and women psychologists from this period are often depicted as being collectively nonfeminist in orientation. In particular, historical accounts of the National Council of Women Psychologists (NCWP), formed in 1942, call the strength and value of members' feminist activism into question. Recent scholarship on interwave feminist activity in the United States has offered a new way of looking at the NCWP, and exploring feminist historiography and using archival data, we suggest that women of the NCWP used a variety of strategies appropriate to their zeitgeist to improve the standing of women in psychology. Some of these strategies do not map well onto post-1960s' definitions of feminist activism and so their effectiveness may not be easily recognized. We argue that the NCWP provided a platform for second-generation women psychologists to document gender-based disparities, debate strategies, and raise awareness of women's contributions to the field. In doing so, the NCWP prepared the ground for second-wave feminist organizing of the 1970s. We suggest that a close look at the struggles and strategies of the NCWP offers important lessons for contemporary feminist organizations in psychology.

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Status of women in the American Psychological Association.

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Trends in women’s participation at the meetings of the Association for Behavior Analysis: 1975–2005

Trends in women’s participation at the meetings of the Association for Behavior Analysis: 1975–2005

La investigación sobre libros de texto desde la perspectiva de género: ¿hacia la renovación de los materiales didácticos? / Research on textbooks from a gender perspective : Towards the renovation of educational materials

Unfamiliar Feminisms: Revisiting the National Council of Women Psychologists

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