PSYC 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Grammatical Gender, Feminine Psychology, Gender Studies
23 Feb 2016
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Changing in gender distribution: canada psychological association (cpa) Women have increase greatly in this are: psychology phd programs. 1998 = 70% women: 44. 2% for all phd. Gender equality: early years: 1939: 53 psychologist = 6/7 women, mary wright > claims everyone was treated equally, regardless of gender. Equal number of men and women obtain full psychological careers. Only one women had a family, whereas all men had family. Infer that it was more difficult for people to have a family. Gender equality: middle years: women were not particularly interested in studying women"s issues, post war decline in women"s participation, 1968: first woman president of cpa (mary wright, 1972: underground symposium. Undergraduate students papers were rejected because there topics didn"t fit very well rejected. All students then submit all together so that they couldn"t be. Thus they weren"t allowed to present at cpa. But they ended holding their own: but the hotel wouldn"t allow them to rent.
