Feminist psychology in Canada: Early days.

Pyke, Sandra W.

doi:10.1037/h0086895

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“…Wright & Myers, 1982d). Women were very involved in psychology as an applied field in the interwar years (de la Cour, 1987). Interestingly, however, historians of women in higher education have suggested that despite making significant gains in university enrollment post-WWI, there was actually an overall decline in the percentage of women enrolled in many fields between 1920 and 1940 (see Millar, 2011;Strong-Boag, 1988).…”

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“…Seventeen percent of the CPA's founding members were women who over the years served as both members and administrators. The CPA appointed Northway one of its six board members in 1948, a concrete demonstration of the leadership opportunities possible for women at that time (de la Cour, 1987).…”

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“…It was during this time that psychology began to officially separate from philosophy departments in Canadian universities. Finally, this period saw the founding of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) in 1938 (Dzinas, 2000;Ferguson, 1992) and the appointment of its first female board member in 1948 (de la Cour, 1987). Keates and Stam (2009) identified the first generation of women in Canadian psychology as those who obtained their doctoral degrees prior to 1950.…”

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“…Wright, 1969a). But, as de la Cour (1987) noted, this postwar period saw a precipitous decline in women's previously high levels of participation in the field. She reported that at the University of Toronto, for example, female enrollment in undergraduate psychology courses declined from over 80% in 1940 to 48% by 1959.…”

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“…Wright, 1969a). Effectively, as de la Cour (1987) demonstrated, this means that especially in the period we are focusing on there were many highly accomplished women who earned a master's as their terminal degree but are excluded from our analysis. For example, Beatrice Wickett-Nesbitt (1907, who earned her MA at Brown University while taking graduate courses at McGill University, went on to become the executive director of the Canadian Mental Health Association and chief psychologist at the Ottawa Board of Education.…”

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Reconstructing the experiences of first generation women in Canadian psychology.

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Korosteliov

Caplan

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Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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To date, the historiography on women in Canadian psychology has been relatively sparse. This is especially true in relation to the much more extensive literature that documents the history of first and second generation women in American psychology. The aim of this paper is to systematically identify and analyse the personal characteristics, educational experiences, and career trajectories of first generation women psychologists in Canada. We identify this cohort as women who received their PhDs during the period 1922 to 1960. We contextualize their experiences vis-à-vis unique trends in Canadian society, paying particular attention to the common struggles faced by these women within or in reaction to the broader social, cultural, political, and institutional structures they encountered. By locating and distinguishing Canadian women in psychology, we offer an important contribution to the development of a more comprehensive history of Canadian psychology and highlight its gendered dynamics.But if I am concerned about the lack of awareness of Canadian contributions to psychological knowledge, and a general lack of awareness of the history of our discipline, I am even more concerned about the relative invisibility of our herstory. (Stark, 2000, p. 3) Written just over a decade ago, this call for increased awareness of the history of Canadian psychology and the role women have played in it is now being heeded. In this paper, we address concerns about the invisibility of our herstory by presenting the results of our systematic search for women in early Canadian psychology. In doing so, we provide a counterweight to the extensive historiography on women in American psychology that began in the 1970s and has since expanded to encompass many important historical studies (e.g.

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