http://www.apa.org/divisions/div35/
This link is for the Society for the Psychology of Women. The society gives out many grants and awards and is working towards building bridges between the research and application in every day life. They promote independence and equality.
I would like to comment on the reading about the Psychology of Women. This was brought up in class in terms of the quiz and I got really confused even looking at my notes of the reading. What exactly is the variability hypothesis and what controls variability. The reading contained so many different explanations as to why males were more variable and then contradictory explanations as to why females should be more variable. What really suprised me was that early on many psychologists believed that women should be educated, because to not educate them denies them the chance to make contributions to society. Although this may be slightly sexist of me I found the concept of men and women being similar to yin and yang kind of endearing. The concept of women complimenting men and vice versa is nice, however when it comes to intelligence and emotions I think that they got it wrong. In my opinion, there may be many areas where a man is smarter then a woman in some areas and vice versa, but to say that men are intelligent and women are emotional is ridiculous and sexist.
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I agree in large part. I too found the reading confusing, and re-looked at the article again to see how it was worded. In some instances, it appeared that women were viewed more variable, but in others it explicitly says that men are the more variable of the bunch. I guess it was good that we had a quiz question on the subject...so I was able to review the info again.
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