ABSTRACT
If you take a look at any psychology text published over a decade ago, you will find that psychology is described as the scientific study of "man/* Reading further, you will also discover that all individuals are "he" and the person's behavior is reported in terms of "his" activities and characteristics. Although women were sometimes included as subjects of study, they were examined in terms of how they were different (and usually lesser) than men. This "androcentric** view of human behavior assumed that men were the normative population and other groups were then studied to determine how they compared with male standards. How then have we moved toward a psychology of people as well as a psychology of women?
