What is the Role of Women in Psychology?

    Women play a large, unappreciated role in psychology. Mary Whiton Calkins was one of the first majoring women in psychology history. She wrote an Intro to psychology textbook in 1901 and was the first woman president of the American Psychological Association. Her main area of interest was that of the psychology of the self. Another main contributing woman to psychology was Margaret Flay Washburn. She was the first woman to be granted a PhD in psychology from Cornell in 1921. Many other women also contributed to psychology and women now make up about 70% of psychology majors and 1/2 of psychology doctorates.