Historical Highlights

1962

• Martha Bernal is the first Latina to earn a PhD in psychology
  

1963

• Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" is published

• November 22, John F. Kennedy assassinated
  

1966

• National Organization for Women is founded
  

1968

• Association of Black Psychologists is founded

• April 4, Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
  

1969

• At the annual APA convention, collective feminist action shuts down the booths of employers with sex-discriminatory advertisements

• Formation of the Association for Women in Psychology — JoAnnEvans Gardner is first (temporary) president
  

1970

• Phyllis Chesler and Nancy Henley present the Demand for Reparations at the APA Town Hall Meeting in Miami

• Association por La Raza is formed. Edward Casavantes is guiding force

• Task Force on the Status of Women in Psychology is formed. Helen Astin is appointed chair

• Boston Women’s Health Collective publishes first edition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves"

1971

• Network of Indian Psychologists is formed by Carolyn Attneave

1972

• Anne Anastasi is third female president of the APA after a 50-year gap

• Asian American Psychological Association is founded

1973

• Division 35 is approved by the APA Council of Representatives as a result of one of the recommendations of the Task Force on the Status of Women. Elizabeth Douvan is the first president

• Committee on Women in Psychology is formed. Martha Mednick is the first chair

• Landmark legal decision Roe V. Wade makes abortion legal in the United States

1974

• Jan. 1, Division 35 is officially instituted

• Committee on Research Guidelines is formed. Ethel Tobach is first chair

• APA Task Force on Sex Bias and Sex Role Stereotyping in Psychotherapeutic Practice is formed

1975

• Georgia Babladel is named first editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly

• Annual Review of Psychology published first review chapter on psychology of women

1976

• First issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly appears

• Division 35 Task Force on Black Womens Concerns appointed. Carolyn Payton, Saundra Rice Murray, Gwendolyn Puryear and Winnie Emoungo are first members

1977

• Task Force on the Concerns of Hispanic Women is formed. Martha Bernal is the first chair

• Women’s Programs Office established. Nancy Felipe Russo named first director

• APA Ethics Code changed to prohibit sexual contact between therapists and clients
  

1978

• Gloria Steinem presents an invited address at the APA convention in Toronto

• Pamela Trotman Reid is first president of the Committee on Black Women's Concerns

1980

• Florence L. Denmark is the fifth woman to be elected president of the APA

1982

• First meeting of the Feminist Therapy Institute

1984

• Florence Denmark, Carolyn Payton and Laurie Eyde receive the first APA Committee on Women in Psychology Leadership Awards

1985

• Division 44, Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual issues is formed

1986

• Task Force on Nonsexist Research is formed

• 1987 Bonnie R. Strickland is the seventh woman to be elected president of the APA

1988

• Task Force on Feminist Research and Epistemology & the Teaching the Psychology of Women Institute are established

1990-1992

• Task Force on Cultural Diversity in Feminist Psychology is formed, chaired by Hope Landrine

1992

• Report of the APA Task Force on Violence against Women is issued

1995

• First book published in the Division 35 book series. Edited by Hope Landrine, it is titled "Bringing Cultural Diversity to Feminist Psychology"

• Division 35 becomes the fourth largest division of the APA

2000

• Report of the APA Task Force on Women in Academe

2001

• Norine Johnson is the eighth woman to be elected president of the APA
  

2004

• Diane Halpern is the ninth woman to be elected president of the APA
  

2007

• Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls

2009

• Report of the Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion