Possibility for women in psychology and interdisciplinary sciences: Introduction to the special issue

Abstract

This work provides an introduction to the special issue, "Possibility for Women in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences: Theoreticians, Scientists and Agents for Change in the 21st Century." The goals of this special issue are to foster dialogue and debate about such possibility for women in psychology and interdisciplinary sciences with a sharpened focus on diversifying roles for women as theoreticians, scientists, scholar-activists, and agents for change in the 21st century. The issue presents a timely opportunity to take stock of roles for women in their engagement with the tasks of scientific inquiry in psychology and its subdisciplines, as well as across disciplines. Target articles are presented by Angela Febbraro; Alexandra Rutherford; Lisa Osbeck; and Lisa Cosgrove and Akansha Vaswani; and commentaries by Suzanne Kirschner and Thomas Teo.