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Feminist Leaders
Div. 35 highlights the accomplishments of feminist leader and their outstanding contributions to the psychology of women.
Join our Society of Feminist Leaders
Div. 35 is a community that recognizes feminists psychologists and their work, particularly as it relates to the psychology of women and gender. Our membership consists of over 2,000 individuals with many diverse psychological career interests.
Dr. Mary Ballou has made numerous contributions to feminist psychology, practice, and teaching.
One of our past Presidents, Martha Banks was awarded the University of Rhode Island's 2010 President's Achievement Award.
"Aunt Academe" Shares Her Journey to Feminist Psychology
“I did not plan to be here, at this place in my career. This is just the accidental consequence of following my passion and doing what I love.”
“Being a feminist psychologist means being someone who is committed to using mental health practice and science for the empowerment and the uplift of all people while actively combating every form of oppression.”
Great leaders are those who possess vision and the ability to affect change.
She recalled having only one female professor at the time who tried to blend in with male professors as much as possible. It was not until reading Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique did Dr. Cole fully realize the effects of gender bias on women’s careers.
Former president of APA. In 1998, she was the first woman, the first person of color and the first psychologist to receive the very prestigious Harvard Medical School A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award(APA, 2011).
When students around the world take a course in the psychology of women, they have Florence Denmark to thank. Denmark has served as president of APA and of the International Council of Psychologists, Eastern Psychological Association, New York State Psychological Association and Psi Chi.
Katz was the founding editor of the journal Sex Roles and has been recognized for her research on the development of gender and racial concepts and attitudes.
Dr. Mednick was an influential member of the Committee on Women in Psychology (MacKay, 201). She was president of Division 35, Society for the Psychology of Women of the American Psychological Association from 1976 to 1977 (Unger, 2009). She also served as president of SPSSI from 1980 to 1982 (Unger, 2009).
Former Div. 35 President. Travis’s research has primarily focused on women and health care disparities, as well as on sexuality, feminism, sexual assault and gender equality.
Former President of APA (first Latina), President of the Texas Psychological Association, APA Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women), and 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology). She is a cofounder of APA Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues), and served as its first Council of Representatives Member. She has also served as a Council Representative for Divisions 17 and 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice).
Dr. Wyche’s research focuses on women, women’s families, and how they cope in traumatic and ongoing circumstances (Wyche, 2007). Some of her most poignant work describes the life experiences of women living with HIV and narratives of Katrina survivors.
Dr. Yoder was invited to work on Project Athena, a longitudinal study assessing women’s integration to the United States Military Academy at West Point (Yoder, 2008). Using her experience from the project, Dr. Yoder published a paper in the Journal of Social Issues on tokenism and marginalization, which would also become a research theme throughout her career (Yoder, 2008).
