Rhoda K. Unger (1939-2019) was a feminist psychologist known for her position at the forefront of female activism in psychology.
After her retirement, Unger was a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.
[11] Rhoda Kesler Unger was born in Brooklyn, NY on February 22, 1939[12] into a working-class Jewish family.
Unger considered herself an empirical psychologist and focused her research efforts on addressing social problems.
Her emphasis on terminology allowed researchers to focus on sociocultural and environmental factors (e.g., family structure, race-ethnicity, religion) that contribute to, and provide explanations for, differences often presumed to have biological origins.