Dr Marian Breland Bailey
Marian Ruth Kruse Breland Bailey was a pioneer in the field of animal behavior.
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Hilda Taba
Estonian-American curriculum reformer
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
While William Moulton Marston is credited as the creator of Wonder Woman, his wife Elizabeth and their polyamorous partner Olive Byrne were highly influential in her development, to the point that when Marston first raised the idea of creating a comic book hero, Elizabeth reportedly said, “Fine—but make her a woman.”
Dr Emma Dolujanoff
Mexican psychologist and writer
Dr Manjula O’Connor
Award-winning Indian-Australian psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher.
Lenora Fulani
In 1988 Fulani became the first woman and first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. She won 225,000 votes, or 0.2% of the November 1988 total.
Flora Hubbs
Flora Ross spent 25 years as matron of women patients in British Columbia’s Asylum for the Insane.
Mary Cover Jones
Mary Cover Jones was a well-known developmental psychologist specializing in child and adolescent development.
Dr Margaret Floy Washburn
Advocate for equal educational opportunities for women who became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a doctoral degree in psychology.
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
An early feminist and active member of the Women’s Suffrage Party, Leta Stetter Hollingworth is best known for her landmark contributions to the psychology of women and to education of the gifted, the latter culminating in two books, Gifted Children (1926) and Children Above IQ 180 (1942).