Helen Farmer

Professor Emeritus

Working with her research team, Helen Farmer has focused her research on investigating why women contribute less to the arts and sciences than men. The model developed to investigate this topic is a shift away from models that propose that internal psychological and biological factors are the cause of women’s lesser contributions in these areas. Instead, they investigated the contribution of external factors that women and men experience growing up as well as psychological and biological factors. Experiences in the family, community, and the school all are predicted to affect women’s motivation to contribute to society.more information...