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Psychology: Outline

David G. Sanchez

Excelsior College

Psychology: Outline

The discipline of psychology has struggled with the ethical and fair treatment of people from diverse backgrounds and women entering or working in this field since it was founded.

1. How did women and feminism contribute in psychology and produce a diverse present and future?

2. Outline:

1. 1. 1. Introduction: In 1946, psychologist Alice Bryan and her colleague Edwin Boring conducted a survey of American psychology and found that of the 2,672 doctoral-level psychologists who responded to their survey, 24 percent were women (Bryan & Boring, 1946). Up until the 1970s, the number of women had its largest spike due to the women’s movement. By the year 2000, women receiving doctorates in the field of psychology had risen to 66.6 percent (Women and Minorities in Psychology, 2015)

      2. Historic data:  The 1960s also saw important cultural and political shifts that affected the number and representation of minority psychologists. The civil rights movement and development of Black Nationalism opened doors to African American to become psychologists. Their activism paved the way for other minority groups such as Latino/Latina psychologists and Asian American psychologists to demand greater receptivity to and support for their concerns and agendas within a largely white, Eurocentric psychological establishment (Women and Minorities in Psychology, 2015).

      3. Today’s data: U.S. psychology, in the terms of making diversity a part of the agenda, many women have earned their doctorate and are practicing their role as a psychiatrist in schools, clinical and counseling.

      4. Change over time: Women have made a huge ethical impact in the course of time in earning their doctorate and to making it divorce in the U.S.

      5. Comparison: There has been a drastic change in percentage of women practicing psychology within a 50 year time span.

      6. Conclusion: Women have been fighting their way to many job fields in the 1960s, however, psychology has been a very successful job field for women. They have fought to make it as diverse as possible as all women deserve the right to practice this field of work. Today many women hold strong positions in the field of psychology.

References

Psychology. (2015). History of Psychology: Women and Minorities in Psychology.

Retrieved from

http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/history-of-psychology/women-and-minorities/

Superson, A. Feminist Moral Psychology. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition). Retrieved from https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/feminism-moralpsych/