[4] In 1971, Guttentag became the second woman to be elected as president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI).
At the University of Michigan, Guttentag was recognized for her academic achievements and named M. Robinson Hawkins Scholar.
[8] She subsequently worked as a National Institute of Mental Health fellow at Harvard University.
She wrote her thesis The Effect of Verbal Reinforcement and Word Frequency on Visual Duration Thresholds, under the supervision of Harry I.
[7] At the time of her death, Guttentag was writing a manuscript for a book on the societal implications of imbalanced sex-ratios, which her husband Paul Secord later completed (with co-authorship).
[13][14] As compared to popular music of the 1970s, The Magic Flute and other songs of the classical period were much more romantic, glorifying courtship and the institution of marriage.