Introduction
The introduction of this article gives relevant background about the case study. That is, it starts with a general analysis of the previous decades. Women have been seen busying themselves avidly in psychology arena. This can be manually confirmed by a looking at any hall in any typical school affiliation of psychology. This phenomenon was ideally found out that one of every four sophomore or freshmen consulting the department of psychology would be a woman (Weiten, 2006). The main emphasis was on why women were majoring on the discipline! In fact, the main statistics account for about 72% of the undergraduates students graduating from college during time of spring are women (Weiten, 2006). This means that more women are infiltrating the psychology department and creating a shift in the gender composition of the professionals hence bringing a most heated debate. A few sources are listed in relation to this account. They are: Bellas, 1993; Blau & Belier, 1988; and Reskin & Roos, 1990 (Weiten, 2006). One of the apprehensions and discussions put across was that if the field is flooded with female profession it would result in some mishaps in the sector. For example: the salaries will dwindle; job security will be jeopardized; autonomy that is always concerned with the field will degrade; and maybe the potentially lucrative opportunities in the field may go to waste (Weiten, 2006). As a result there was formulation of a Task Force meant to police on the true nature and any implications of women who are alarmingly participating in the psychology.
Methodology
The methodology used in this research relied on this case study was broad based and correlated various findings from federal agencies and other sources. For example, the method of sampling and gathering data, that is open and closed questionnaires, interviews, observation were carried along different perspectives. A few of the Perspectives include the “flow of women through the undergraduate and graduate training pipeline” (Weiten, 2006). The study took a longer span of period and most of the findings was tabled and correlated with different interests.
Results
The research team tabled the results received, found the central measures like null hypothesis and came up with a finding. The team in the research found out that gender differences are quite small. Funny enough the involvement of the women in the field did not specialize in one core area. The salary remained constant despite their infiltration. Therefore women involvement in psychology was a positive incident that was not very alarming but need to outsource more talent that is relevant disrespect of gender.
Discussions/Conclusions
Reskin and Roos are noted that “greater regulation and decline of autonomy make fields less attractive” (Weiten, 2006). The freedom in the field that was presumably thought to decline was being restructured in departmental controls. The increased “university-level administration control of departmental decisions about hiring and promotion, the growing competition for research dollars” seemed a problem but it is universal problem (Weiten, 2006).
Personal Reaction
The study topic raised my enthusiasm about the topic of psychology. The whole study was quite strange because of the amazing facts about women’s interest in psychology and other related sub-faculties that would lead to negative effects. However, the reason about the professional value of the discipline authenticated the research in this topic. There were many ethical and gender related issues concerning femininity.
Reference
Weiten, W. & McCann, D. (2006). Psychology: Themes and Variations. Toronto: Nelson College Indigenous.