Male Psychology: The Magazine

Opinion, Workplace Mark Lindsay Opinion, Workplace Mark Lindsay

The development of my father’s career in psychology, and how the field changed during the 20th century from being male-dominated to female-dominated

…post-war maintenance of an enlarged Civil Service […] led to a strong presence of women in the governance of State endeavours such as the NHS. It also seems that once […] clinical psychologists were allowed to practice ‘talking therapies,’ for which women arguably have a natural aptitude, the floodgates for women in psychology were fully opened.

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