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At Wellesley College, Calkins established the first psychological laboratory for women. She was the first woman to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in psychology with the unanimous support of the Harvard University psychology faculty, although the university refused to bestow it on the grounds that Harvard did not accept women.
While Prosser is frequently referred to as the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in Psychology, others believe that Ruth Winifred Howard (1900–1997) was the first. Those who argue that Howard, earning PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1934, is the first African-American woman to earn a PhD, hold the view that a psychologist is ...
In 1929, she was elected to the International Committee of Psychology. [4] Washburn was the first woman psychologist and the second woman scientist to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1931. [10] The same year, she served as a United States Delegate to the International Congress of Psychology in Copenhagen. [4]
Ellen Jane Langer (/ ˈ l æ ŋ ər /; born March 25, 1947) is an American professor of psychology at Harvard University; in 1981, she became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard. [1] [2] She is widely known as the "mother of mindfulness" [3] and the "mother of positive psychology". [4]
Jenny Patrick becomes the first Black woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in chemical engineering (from Massachusetts Institute of Technology). [97] 1980: United States Women and men are enrolled in American colleges in equal numbers for the first time. [318] [319] 1982: United States
1850: Lucy Sessions earned a literary degree from Oberlin College, becoming the first African American woman in the United States to receive a college degree. [72] 1851: The Adelphean Society, now called Alpha Delta Pi Women's Fraternity, was founded at Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia and became the first secret society for women.
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
The first woman to become president of the American Psychological Association. She was also a philosopher. Her career focused on self-psychology and the belief that the conscious self should be the foundation of psychological study. [56] [57] Paula Caplan: 1947–2021 [58] Susan Carey: Cora Sutton Castle: 1880–1966 [59] Psyche Cattell: 1893 ...