Feminist Tactics for Better Psychology

Feminism is important for psychology because both fields of enquiry overlap and insights from both can be usefully shared. The difficulties that arise in existing feminist psychology are a result of a leaning towards oversimplified egalitarian or women‐centred solutions. These emerge in three areas of psychology: women's under‐representation, gender stereotypes and androcentric theory. Examples of egalitarianism and women‐centredness in well‐known feminist psychological studies from all three areas are examined. A linguistic feminist psychology might be able to evade the contradiction between egalitarian and women‐centred approaches.