Man and a woman - Two completely different “worlds” on our planet. There are many differences between them. For example: women have a much stronger developed imagination than men. Women have a lot of faults but at the same time men are characterized by only two: What they say and what they actually do. God has created the man before woman in order to have enough time to think and search for the answer for her first question.
The role of man and woman has been determined differently all over the world, but most countries rely on the standard “traditional” gender roles: Dad wakes up in the morning, drinks a cup of coffee, puts on his suit and heads to the office, whilst on the same time the Mom has to take care of the children, get them ready for school, clean the house and simply keeps the house under the control. The father is the one who bring money into the family, the mom’s main role is to be the keeper of the hearth. Therefore, in many cultures in the past men had the number one priority in attending schools, studying, graduating, then eventually entering college and studying there. They were the “career-makers” while at the same time the women were taught how to be a housewife: learned how to deal with all the house-hold chores, learned different approaches in terms of rearing the children. That is how it used to be for centuries in different countries. With time feminist movements appeared, they fought for the equality and against gender discrimination. As a result nowadays the situation has changed drastically. First of all the gender discrimination has nearly ceased to exist. Men and women are treated equally in the world. Same situation is when you apply for a job: Employers consider your application and judge you not by your gender, the way you look, but pay attention to your professional skills first of all.
Overall, the women role has significantly changed in the society with time. To sum up all the facts mentioned previously just take a look at the achievements and inventions of the beautiful part of the mankind. Grace Hooper – is one of the most famous programmer in the 20th century. She graduated from Yale with PhD in Math and was the first woman to achieve the admiral rank in the United States Navy. Her famous invention was the first computer software program for business (COBOL: Common Business-Oriented Language). And there are many other women, in different spheres, and Psychology is not an exception.
Psychology is the fundamental study of the mind and behavior of the individual. The science Psychology we see nowadays appeared something like 150 years ago, but it originates from Greece 500 years BC. Most famous great thinkers were Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. Speaking of the modern psychologist – they created their theories and studies in the 20th century. The most famous ones are B.F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers, William James, Ivan Pavlov and many others. As for the famous women – they are Melanie Klein, Mary Calkins, Anna Freud. These thinkers were ignored but starting with the second half of 20th century their studies were recognized all over the world.
Another branch of psychology that she did contribute in was the Ego-theories. She presented the book The Ego and the Mechanism of Defense (1936) which was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of his father’s birthday. In this book she explained what is Ego, what parts does it consist of and how the Id, ego, super-ego cooperate and balance themselves.
Finally, there are more than simply Anna Freud that influenced on the creation of the modern psychology, there were many other famous scientists that greatly contributed in the science of psychology and other fundamental studies as well. Because of their devoted hard work, many things became clearer with time.
References
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