WORKING TOWARD AN INCLUSIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN

Feminist critics of an androcentric bias in psychology have argued tha t the tendency to either exclude women from study or include women and men as comparison groups has resulted in faulty over generalizations about women's psychology, exaggerations of gender differences, and eva luations of women as deficient relative to a male-defined baseline. Th e authors warn of a parallel bias that could affect progress in the fi eld of the psychology of women if a White, privileged female norm is a dopted inadvertently by researchers. The fallacy of such a norm, its c onsequences, and suggestions for avoiding it are discussed.