Mary Ainsworth
Historically the under-representation of women’s contributions in psychology makes sense — the American Psychological Association reports that in 1950 only 14.8% of doctoral degrees were awarded to women. By the 1960s this figure had risen to 17.5%. Therefore there weren’t many women who could have been doing research.
After the 1960s, the percentage of woman awarded doctoral degrees grew dramatically. In fact, by the 1980s the percentage of doctoral degrees awarded to women was 50.1% and in 2002 that figure was 66.7%.
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