As Women Began to Enter Psychology in Greater Numbers in the Early

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Essay

As women began to enter psychology in greater numbers in the early 1970s, they began to document evidence of a pervasive bias in the research methods that were being used. Describe the biases that these feminist psychologists documented.

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