The Future of Women in Psychological Science

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: June Gruber, University of Colorado Boulder; Jane Mendle, Cornell University; Kristen A Lindquist, University of North Carolina; Toni Schmader, University of British Columbia; Lee Anna Clark, University of Notre Dame; Eliza Bliss-Moreau, University of California Davis; Modupe Akinola, Columbia University; Lauren Atlas, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and National Institute of Mental Health; Deanna M Barch, Washington University; Lisa F Barrett, Northeastern University; Jessica L Borelli, University of California Irvine; Tiffany N Brannon, University of California Los Angeles; Silvia A Bunge, University of California Berkeley; Belinda Campos, University of California Irvine; Jessica Cantlon, Carnegie Mellon University; Rona Carter, University of Michigan; Adrienne R Carter-Sowell, Texas A&M University; Serena Chen, University of California Berkeley; Michelle G Craske, University of California Los Angeles; Amy JC Cuddy, Harvard Business School Executive Education; Alia Crum, Stanford University; Lila Davachi, Columbia University; Angela L Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania; Sunny J Dutra, William James College; Naomi I Eisenberger, University of California Berkeley; Melissa Ferguson, Cornell University; Brett Q Ford, University of Toronto; Barbara L Fredrickson, University of North Carolina; Sherryl Goodman, Emory University; Alison Gopnik, University of California Berkeley; Valerie Purdie Greenaway, Columbia University; Kate L Harkness, Queens University; Mikki Hebl, Rice University; Wendy Heller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jill Hooley, Harvard University; Lily Jampol, Humu Inc; Sheri L Johnson, University of California Berkeley; Jutta Joormann, Yale University; Katherine D Kinzler, Cornell University; Hedy Kober, William James College; Ann M Kring, University of California Berkeley; Elizabeth L Paluck, Princeton University; Tania Lombrozo, Princeton University; Stella Lourenco, Emory University; Kateri McRae, University of Denver; Joan K Monin, Yale School of Public Health; Judith T Moskowitz, Northwestern University; Misaki N Natsuaki, University of California Riverside; Gabriele Oettingen, New York University; Jennifer H Pfeifer, University of Oregon; Nicole Prause, Liberos LLC; Darby Saxbe, University of Southern California; Pamela K Smith, University of California San Diego; Barbara A Spellman, University of Virginia; Virginia Sturm, University of California San Francisco; Bethany A Teachman, University of Virginia; Renee J Thompson, Washington University; Lauren M Weinstock, Brown University; Lisa A Williams, University of New South Wales
• Language: English
• Date: 2020-09-09
• Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © The Author(s) 2020
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691620952789
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 3
• Start Page: 483
• End Page: 516
• Grant/Funding Information: L. Atlas was supported in part by Intramural funding from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
• Keywords: GENDER BIAS HABIT; FEMALE LEADERS; CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; STEM; psychology; SEX-DIFFERENCES; bias; FACULTY; WORKPLACE EXPERIENCES; Psychology, Multidisciplinary; Psychology; STUDENT-RATINGS; gender; NATIONAL-SURVEY; science; women; gender roles; Social Sciences; SELF-PROMOTION
• Research Categories: Psychology, Clinical

Abstract

There has been extensive discussion about gender gaps in representation and career advancement in the sciences. However, psychological science itself has yet to be the focus of discussion or systematic review, despite our field’s investment in questions of equity, status, well-being, gender bias, and gender disparities. In the present article, we consider 10 topics relevant for women’s career advancement in psychological science. We focus on issues that have been the subject of empirical study, discuss relevant evidence within and outside of psychological science, and draw on established psychological theory and social-science research to begin to chart a path forward. We hope that better understanding of these issues within the field will shed light on areas of existing gender gaps in the discipline and areas where positive change has happened, and spark conversation within our field about how to create lasting change to mitigate remaining gender differences in psychological science.