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Despite gender parity in earned doctorates in cognitive psychology for over 40 years, men continue to be over-represented in this field - as award recipients, as journal editors, and as leaders in professional societies. This article documents the relative presence of men vs. women in US cognitive psychology across a number of indicators of professional visibility.
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Although women doctorates in the U.S. are by no means under-represented at the entry level among tenure track faculty positions in cognitive/experimental psychology, their representation as tenured, full professors is alarmingly low, and has been low for decades. Yet even those who have achieved a senior status are not as visible in the profession (on a number of indicators we reviewed) as their male counterparts. Why is this the case, and how can it change?
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This page is a summary of: V. An examination of women's professional visibility in cognitive psychology, Feminism & Psychology, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0959353516641139.
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