Psychology of Women Issues and manual

780 About the Editors and Contributors subject matter for writing books and summaries, and active participation in relevant seminars. Following her graduation, she began working as a research assistant to Prof. Marilyn P. Safir at the University of Haifa. Hill’s plans for the future include beginning M.A. studies in information science at Bar Ilan University, beginning in October 2007. Janet Shibley Hyde is Helen Thompson Woolley Professor of Psychol- ogy and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Her research, over three decades, has focused on psychological gender differences and similarities and women balancing work and family. Her current work focuses on the emergence of gender differences in depression in adolescence. Since 1990, Dr. Hyde has been codirector of the Wisconsin Study of Families and Work (www.wsfw.us). She is the author of two undergraduate textbooks, Half the Human Experience: The Psychology of Women and Understanding Human Sexuality. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Hyde has won numerous awards, includ- ing the Heritage Award from the Society for the Psychology of Women for her career contributions to research on the psychology of women. In 2002 she was listed among the top 100 psychologists in the world in terms of citations in introductory psychology textbooks. Phyllis A. Katz is currently director of the Institute for Research on Social Problems, formerly located in Boulder, Colorado, and now located in Bal Harbour, Florida. Dr. Katz received her Ph.D. from Yale University in clinical and developmental psychology and has taught at Queens College, New York University, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the University of Colorado. Her research has focused upon the development of gender-roles and racial attitudes in children, and she has published extensively in these two areas. Dr. Katz was the founding editor of Sex Roles, the first publication devoted entirely to scholarly research on women’s issues and was also editor of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues’ Jour- nal of Social Issues. She has served as president of SPSSI, as well as the Society for the Psychology of Women, has been on the governing coun- cil of the APA, and has been a recipient of the Carolyn Sherif and the APA Public Interest Senior Research awards. Her most recent book, The Feminist Dollar: The Wise Woman’s Buying Guide, was coauthored with her daughter, Margaret Katz Cann. Dr. Katz is currently working on a book describing the results of her longi- tudinal study of how young children develop concepts and attitudes about race and gender, entitled Black and White and Pink and Blue. Mary E. Kite is a professor of psychological science at Ball State Uni- versity. Recently, she served in administrative roles at Ball State,

About the Editors and Contributors 781 including acting graduate dean and associate graduate dean. Through- out her career, she has maintained an active research program in the area of stereotyping and prejudice, particularly as it relates to antigay prejudice and racism. Most recently, she coauthored a textbook on ster- eotyping and prejudice (with Bernie Whitley). Dr. Kite is a Fellow of the Society of the Teaching of Psychology, the Society for the Psychol- ogy of Women, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues. In 2006, she served as president of the Soci- ety for the Teaching of Psychology. She is currently secretary-treasurer of the Midwestern Psychological Association and chairs the APA Task Force on Diversity Education Resources. Maria Klara received her B.A. from Boston College in 1999 and her M.S. in counseling psychology from Northeastern University in 2003. She is currently pursuing her Psy.D. in school-clinical child psychology at Pace University. Her academic interests include women and gender issues, psychological assessment, and clinical work with adolescents. Nicole Livingston is a doctoral candidate in the Clinical Psychology Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is currently con- ducting her dissertation research on relational aggression and recently presented this work at the 2007 Association for Women in Psychology conference. She is a coauthor (with Maureen McHugh and Amy Ford) of an article on postmodern perspectives on gender and violence pub- lished in the 2005 special issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly. Her clinical interests include gender issues and forensic psychology. Bernice Lott is professor emerita of psychology and women’s studies at the University of Rhode Island and is a former dean of its University College. She has taught at the University of Colorado and Kentucky State College and was a visiting scholar/professor at Brown University’s Center for Research and Teaching on Women; Stanford University’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender; the Depart- ment of Psychology in Waikato University, New Zealand; and the Uni- versity of Hawaii–Manoa. She received the University of Rhode Island’s Excellence Award for scholarly achievement, served as presi- dent of APA’s Division 35 (Psychology of Women), and has been hon- ored for scholarly, teaching, mentoring, and social policy contributions by APA’s Committee on Women, Division 35, the Association for Women in Psychology, and the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. In 1999, the University of Rhode Island awarded her the hon- orary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Dr. Lott is the author of numerous theoretical and empirical articles, chapters, and books in the areas of social learning, gender, poverty, and other social issues, and is a Fellow of APA and of Divisions 1, 8, 9,

782 About the Editors and Contributors and 35. She has represented Divisions 9 and 35 on the coalition of Divi- sions for Social Justice. Her areas of interest are interpersonal discrimi- nation; the intersections among gender, ethnicity, and social class; multicultural issues; the social psychology of poverty; and the social psychology of dissent. Currently, she represents Division 9 (SPSSI) on APA’s Council of Representatives and is a member of an Interdivi- sional Minority Pipeline Project working on strategies to increase the recruitment and retention of graduate students of color. Jennifer Martin is the department head of English at a public alterna- tive high school for at-risk students in Michigan and holds a Ph.D. in educational leadership. She created an intervention strategy to reduce the high rate of peer sexual harassment that was occurring within her school; this became her dissertation research and was how her interest in sexual harassment began. Dr. Martin serves as a mentor to adoles- cent females in the alternative high school. She has also started a suc- cessful women’s studies program, where students are involved in service-learning projects and have partnered with a domestic violence and sexual assault nonprofit. Teaching women’s studies in high school is a political and social cause for her, as is feminist self- identification and the reasons why many young women are hesitant to identify as feminists. She is an advocate for at-risk students in general, as well. In addition to high-school teaching, Dr. Martin is an adjunct lecturer at Oakland University, where she teaches graduate research methods and feminist methodology. Her research interests include peer sexual harassment, feminist identification, teaching for social justice, detrack- ing, service-learning, and the at-risk student. Maureen C. McHugh is a social psychologist and gender specialist. A professor of psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, she has introduced more than 2,500 students to the psychology of women. In addition to journal articles, Dr. McHugh has published chapters in many of the edited texts for the psychology of women, including the first Handbook on the Psychology of Women. Her work focuses on gender differences, feminist methods, and violence against women. She and Irene Frieze received the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) for their coedited special issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly on measures of gender-role atti- tudes. With Frieze, she coedited two additional special issues in 2005, of Psychology of Women Quarterly and Sex Roles, on gender and violence and intimate relationships. Dr. McHugh served as the president equiv- alent of AWP and received the Christine Ladd Franklin Award for service to AWP and feminist psychology.

About the Editors and Contributors 783 Michelle McKenzie received her B.A. in French with a minor in psy- chology from California State University, Long Beach, followed by her M.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University. She is a rape crisis counselor and volunteer with the Sexual Assault Crisis Agency. She is also on the Speaker’s Bureau for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. Martha Mednick received her doctorate from Northwestern University in 1955 in clinical psychology. For many years until her retirement, she was a professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She has been a researcher and has published extensively in the field of the psychology of women for many years. The social issues journal New Perspectives on Women, edited by Mednick and Sandra Schwartz Tangri in 1972, was an important influence on the establishment of Division 35, the Psychology of Women. Dr. Mednick was one of the founders of the division, as well as serving on the APA Committee on the Status of Women. She is a past president of Division 35 and has been awarded the APA Committee on Women in Psychology Leadership Award, as well as the Carolyn Wood Sherif Memorial Award for feminist scholarship. Andrea L. Meltzer is a doctoral student in the experimental program of the psychology department at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. Her recent work includes body dissatisfaction among women, sexism in the workforce, and gender disparities regarding health care issues. Vita Carulli Rabinowitz is a professor in the department of psychol- ogy and acting provost at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She received her doctorate in social psychology at North- western University. Her current research and writings are in the area of sex and gender bias in behavioral and biomedical research, feminist perspectives on research methods, and gender equity, faculty develop- ment, and the advancement of women in academia. As an adminis- trator, Dr. Rabinowitz has a particular interest in revitalizing undergraduate education and curricular reform and innovation, and in faculty development to support research, teaching, and leadership. Pamela Trotman Reid, Ph.D., is the provost and executive vice presi- dent at Roosevelt University and a professor of psychology. She previ- ously held administrative and professorial ranks at the University of Michigan, the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the University of Tennessee–Chattanooga. Her research interests have focused on gender and racial socialization. In particular, her more than 60 journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and essays address the intersections of discrimination based on social class, race, sex, and

784 About the Editors and Contributors related topics. Active in scholarly organizations, she has held elected positions on boards and committees of APA and other professional organizations. Dr. Reid has been an invited speaker at scores of international, national, and regional conferences and more than two dozen colleges and universities. She is the recipient of several national awards, among them the Distinguished Leadership Award given by the APA Committee on Women in Psychology, the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association of Women in Psychology, and the Distinguished Contri- bution to Research Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Issues. She holds a B.S. from Howard University, an M.A. from Temple University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Patricia D. Rozee is a professor of psychology and women’s studies at California State University, Long Beach. She is the founding director of the Center for Community Engagement. Dr. Rozee received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California, Davis, and com- pleted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in applied social psychology at Vanderbilt University. She has published extensively in the area of violence against women, especially sexual assault and rape resistance. Dr. Rozee has taught the psychology of women for more than 20 years. She is also a coeditor of the award-winning textbook Lectures on the Psychology of Women, now in its fourth edition. Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D., Regents Professor of Psychology and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, is a former edi- tor of the Psychology of Women Quarterly andauthoror editorof more than 200 publications related to gender and the psychology of women. A former president of the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35), Dr. Russo is the recipient of the society’s Centennial Herit- age Award for Contributions to Public Policy and the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award in recognition of distinguished contributions to research, teaching, mentoring, and service to psychology and society. A Fellow of APA and APS (American Psychological Society), Russo is the recipient of APA’s 1995 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest and the 2003 Distinguished International Psychologist Award from APA’s Division of International Psychology. Dr. Russo is the current editor of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Marilyn P. Safir is professor emerita, department of psychology at Haifa University (specializing in clinical and social psychology). She graduated with her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and research method- ology at Syracuse University in 1968 and then moved to Israel. Dr. Safir serves as the director of Project KIDMA for the Advancement of Women, which, in addition to programs for women from

About the Editors and Contributors 785 disadvantaged communities and villages, runs workshops for leader- ship training for multicultural and mixed socioeconomic groups. Dr. Safir is the founder and former director (1983–1993) of the University of Haifa’s Women’s Studies Program. She is also a founding member of the Executive Committee and first president of the Israel Association for Feminist and Gender Studies (1998–2002). Jeri Sechzer is visiting professor of psychology at Pace University. She received her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Sechzer’s main research and publications primarily concern sex and gender issues in behavioral and biomedical science, behavioral neuroscience, bioethics, and values in science. She has recently begun to address issues of relation, psychology, and gender. Dr. Sechzer is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 35, Psychology of Women; Division 6, Behavioral Neuro- science and Comparative Psychology; and Division 52, International Psychology), the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New York Acad- emy of Sciences. She has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Leadership Award of the Association for Women in Science (New York Chapter) and the Wilhelm Wundt Award of the New York State Psychological Association for the scientific contribu- tions to psychology. Janet Sigal is a professor of psychology at Farleigh Dickinson Univer- sity. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She has delivered numerous presentations and publications in the area of wom- en’s issues, including sexual harassment and domestic violence. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and an APA NGO representative at the UN. Julia R. Steinberg, M.A., is a doctoral candidate in the graduate pro- gram in social psychology at Arizona State University, where she serves as a research assistant for the university’s Office of Academic Institutional and Cultural Change. Her research interests span several gender/women’s issues, including body image, pregnancy outcomes and mental health, and the persistence of women in math and science fields. Her dissertation focuses on understanding the effects and mod- erators of stereotype threat for women who persist in engineering, math, and science fields. Tina Stern grew up in Cleveland and has lived in Atlanta since 1987. She earned her undergraduate degree from Boston University, her mas- ter’s degree from Cleveland State University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. She is a professor of psychology at Georgia

786 About the Editors and Contributors Perimeter College, where for many years she has taught courses on the psychology of women. In addition, as a licensed psychologist, Dr. Stern maintains a clinical practice. Since her days at Boston University, she has been interested in, and written about, issues related to women and in particular the psychology of women. Jessica Tartaro, M.A., is a doctoral student in the clinical health psy- chology program at Arizona State University. She currently serves as the first graduate fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association and is editor of the Ortho Bulletin, the newsletter for that organization. Tartaro is the 2006 recipient of an APA Society of Clinical Psychology Student Excellence in Service Award for her work to counter violence against women and to link local issues to global concerns. Her current research focuses on spirituality among cancer patients, and her practice explores the integration of yoga in community-based mental health services. Veronica Thomas is a professor in the department of human develop- ment and psychoeducational studies, Howard University. Her research interests include the psychology of black women, the academic and socioemotional development of youths placed at risk, and culturally re- sponsive evaluations. Cheryl Brown Travis is a professor in the department of psychology at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville and chair of the women’s studies program. Her recent work on women and health care issues has focused on gender and race disparities in the treatment of heart disease. Her lat- est books include an edited volume on evolution, gender, and rape and an coedited volume on sexuality, society, and feminism. Maren True is a doctoral student in the graduate program in social psychology at Arizona State University under the mentorship of Dr. Nancy Felipe Russo. Her research interests encompass objectification theory and women’s life history decisions, including education, family, and career choices. Before graduating from Colorado College in 2003, she worked for several years as a residential treatment counselor for troubled youth and as a telephonic counselor and subsequent team leader for the Colorado, Montana, Idaho, and Ohio Tobacco Cessation Quitlines. Christa White is completing her undergraduate degree in psychology at Union College, where she has conducted research on integrating work/life for women and the treatment at the workplace of women who are physically challenged.