E. Mavis Hetherington (November 27, 1926 – July 21, 2023) was a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Virginia.
[1] After receiving her master's degree, she entered the graduate program at the University of California, Berkeley where she earned her Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology in 1958.
[1] While teaching in Wisconsin, Hetherington experienced discrimination by being paid less than the men in the department while out-publishing them and being one of the most popular professors.
She also discovered that divorce can't be looked at as a single event but must be viewed as a process of transitions and perspectives from the entire family.
[5] Because of her husband's illness, Hetherington retired in 1999 after 29 years at the University of Virginia, but her research continued through the students she mentored.