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Example of Gender Discrimination: Mary Whiton Calkins at Harvard

A historical example of gender discrimination involves the psychologist Mary Whiton Calkins. In the late 1880s, despite completing all the necessary requirements for a PhD at Harvard and being recognized as a highly capable professor, the university refused to award her the degree solely because she was a woman.

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