Martha Tamara Shuch Mednick (March 31, 1929 – August 16, 2020) was a feminist psychologist known for her work on women, gender, race and social class.
In 2009 Mednick received the NCMS Distinguished Elders Award from the Society of Counseling Psychology (APA, Division 17).
[8] She believed education had the power to change one's life and began studying psychology at City College of New York.
At Howard, Mednick met Sandra Tangri and together published an issue called "New Perspectives on Women"[13] which later appeared as the book "Woman and achievement: Social and motivational analysis.
Her “Social Change and Sex Role Inertia: The Case of the Kibbutz” exposed the myth of sexual equality on kibbutzim.