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'Womanless' Psychology (until the 1960s)
Coined by Crawford & Marecek (1989), the term 'womanless' psychology describes the state of the field until the 1960s. During this period, very few women were able to practice psychology, which meant they had minimal influence on the questions that were studied and the theories that were developed.
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