Question

Christine Ladd-Franklin was a mathematician and psychologist who faced many obstacles as a woman, but she persevered and made significant contributions to mathematics and psychology. What are some of the academic struggles she faced as a woman, and what contributions did she make to psychology?

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Explanation:

Christine Ladd-Franklin as a woman wasn't allowed to study physics like she wanted, because women at the time were not allowed in laboratories so she instead settled for mathematics. After 9 years of that she wanted to go to Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student. But at the time the university did not allow women. The only reason she got in was because the professor of mathematics had heard of her work. She wasn't allowed to attend certain lectures and once it came time to get her doctorates, she was denied because she was a woman.  

As for her contributions to psychology, she developed her own theory on color vision. She said that color vision was an adaptation in animals that happened in three stages. And by studying the human eye, she could explain why humans were color blind to specific colors.