Carol Nagy Jacklin

Carol Nagy Jacklin (1939 to 2011) was a developmental psychologist and gender scholar who became the first woman to be dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Southern California. Born in Chicago, she took her doctorate at Brown University in 1972 and did postdoctoral work at Stanford alongside Eleanor Maccoby. Their 1974 book The Psychology of Sex Differences reviewed the evidence on supposed differences between girls and boys and found that many popular beliefs were not supported. At Stanford she helped found the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and at the University of Southern California she was the first female tenured psychology professor and the first woman to chair the department. She later served as dean at the College of William and Mary and as an expert witness in sex discrimination cases.