Women psychologists in academe: Mixed progress, unwarranted complacency.

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We express our appreciation to Jessica Kohout and Marlene Wicherski for providing the analyses of APA data and to Susan Houston, Leslie Cameron, and Le Anne Wisnieski for their indispensable staff support to the task force. Helen S. Astin, Phyllis Katz, and Georgine Pion served as consultants to the task force and provided invaluable feedback. We also thank Linda Zimler and Sam Bedinger of the National Center for Education Statistics for their help in obtaining and analyzing the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty and Allen Meyer for his helpful feedback on successive drafts.Requests for copies of the full task force report should be sent to the Women'

Career And Relationship Satisfaction Among Female Faculty in Marriage and Family Therapy Programs

“…They reported, ''Women believe community service is as important as research and that such contributions will be valued'' (Kite et al, p. 1083). However, service commitments can often be a ''double-edged sword'' (Kite et al, p. 1083) as these time consuming tasks, especially if they are viewed as women's work, are generally devalued and under-appreciated (Blackburn & Holbert, 1987;Kite et al, 2001).…”

Feminism and psychology: Critiques of methods and epistemology.

“…Although psychology produced some remarkable female scientists in the first half of the 20th century (see O 'Connell & Russo, 1991;Winkler Muller, 2007), these women were a tiny minority. In 1958 in the United States, women constituted only 18.0% of PhDs awarded in psy chology (Burrelli, 2008, (Michalski, Kohout, Wicherski, & Hart, 2011, Table l).1 Also, in 1977, the earliest year for which faculty data are available, women constituted only 20.5% of full-time tenured or tenure-track psychology faculty in colleges or universities, compared with 46.2% in 2006 (Burrelli, 2008, Table 5) and 45.4% of full-time faculty in departments granting master's and doctoral degrees in 2011 (Hart, Wicherski, & Kohout, 2011, Table l).2 Despite this influx of women in psychology, they have not achieved status equal to that of men (Kite et al, 2001). For example, in the United States, women are estimated to be 34.7% of full professors versus 60.2% of assistant professors in departments of psychology that grant doctoral degrees (Wicherski, Christidis, & Stamm, 2013, Table 30).…”

The Professional Lives of Women Psychologists at Small Colleges

“…Feminist psychologists' contributions to scholarship have extended into and shaped all aspects of the discipline, as well as research on the psychology of women, over the past few decades, and feminist scholarship has resulted in significant advances in myriad aspects of theory, research methods, and the study of gender issues in multiple subfields (Kite et al, 2001;O'Connell & Russo, 1991;Worell & Etaugh, 1994). On the other hand, obstacles faced by feminist scholars, including resistance by students and colleagues to the topics studied and approaches taken to study them and practical dilemmas such as publication outlets and lack of available grant funds, remain problematic for career advancement (Benokraitis, 1998;Grossman et al, 1997).…”

“…Large numbers of women psychologists choose to practice psychotherapy or to work in other applied areas outside of academe. Moreover, those who select an academic career are less likely to join a faculty at a Research I University (Kite et al, 2001) than a faculty at a 4-year or community college, a pattern that broadly applies to women professors in other disciplines (White, 2005). One subset of these academic settings are colleges with undergraduate enrollments of 3,000 or fewer students.…”

“…In the field of psychology, women are now earning the majority of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, but the upper ranks of most academic psychology departments are still predominately staffed by men (Kite et al, 2001). Large numbers of women psychologists choose to practice psychotherapy or to work in other applied areas outside of academe.…”