Discrimination Against Women in Academia
Writing this up mostly to take notes for my History of Psychology course. Figured it was a relevant weighted discussion. Though the examples given do only apply to psychology, the psychological field was actually the first in science to accept women, and these issues are thus related to all other fields as well.
The main thing to get out of this is how recent sexism was. There are people alive today who were not allowed to get a job or education based on their gender. Alive today.
Eleanor Gibson, who has received awards from the APA, honorary doctorates, and the National Medal of Science, was told in her application to Yale in the 30s that women were not allowed in some laboratory facilities, could not attend seminars, were not allowed to use the grad student library nor cafeteria, all of which were men only.
In the 60s, Sandra Scarr was told by Harvard University that Harvard "loathed" accepting women, saying, "Seventy-five percent of you get married, have kids and never finish your degrees, and the rest of you never amount to anything anyway!" The sixties.
Female doctors were not allowed to join the American Medical Association until 1915.
Female lawyers were excluded from the American Bar Association until 1918.
The first female president of the ABA was not until 1995.
