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Susan A. Basow, Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology, recently was featured in Allure magazine, co-chaired an American Psychological Association workshop, participated in a panel discussion, and was elected to a position in Society for the Psychology of Women.
Basow was cited in the August edition of Allure for her research on women's body hair. The brief article focused on a study with Joanna Willis, now a Lafayette alumna, published last year in Psychological Reports.
“We found that a woman with visible body hair was seen more negatively than the same woman without visible body hair, regardless of her reasons for not shaving,” says Basow.
Basow was facilitator and co-coordinator of “Teaching the Psychology of Women,” a four-hour workshop with three presentations on how to incorporate more diversity into a course on the psychology of women or gender. The workshop took place at the American Psychological Association conference held last month in Chicago.
Also at the conference, Basow participated on a panel discussing “Career Strategies for Women in Academe.”
In addition, she was elected secretary of the American Psychological Association Division 35 Society for the Psychology of Women.