References on Men and Women in Psychology (1887-1997): PsycINFO as an Archival Research Tool

PsycINFO was used as an archival research tool to compare the number of references for women and for men in the psychology literature from 1887-1997. The findings of this historical overview indicated a relatively greater number of references for men than for women in the years before the 1960s and...

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Published in:Psychology of men & masculinity 2000-01, Vol.1 (1), p.16-20
Main Authors: Moon, Michelle, Hoffman, Charles D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Female
Human
Human Females
Human Males
Human Sex Differences
Literature Review
Male
Psychology
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Summary:PsycINFO was used as an archival research tool to compare the number of references for women and for men in the psychology literature from 1887-1997. The findings of this historical overview indicated a relatively greater number of references for men than for women in the years before the 1960s and a shift during the 1960s toward more references for women. From 1974 to 1997, the psychology literature evidences proportionally more references for women than men (.65 vs. .35 of the total references for this time period). This dramatic difference, along with the substantially greater overall number of references per year obtained for this versus earlier periods, revealed more references for women than for men in the combined historical research base in psychology (61% vs. 39% of 555,298 total references). The limitations of the present methodology are discussed in relation to suggestions of gender bias in the literature before the early 1970s.
ISSN:1524-9220
1939-151X
DOI:10.1037/1524-9220.1.1.16