Sandra Schwartz Tangri

Sandra Florence Schwartz Tangri (August 27, 1936 – June 11, 2003) was a feminist psychologist and distinguished university professor of social psychology and the psychology of women. Tangri conducted pioneering research on the lives of women who graduated from college and embarked on careers dominated by men. She studied women's motivations in choosing a career and their experiences of sexual harassment. that examined the life paths and experiences of the female graduates of the University of Michigan Class of 1967. Besides her scholarly work, Tangri was a political and social activist involved in the gender equality movement in the 1990s. Tangri credited her feminist identity, and the basis for her politics to her father's strong devotion to social justice and her experience growing up in a working-class Jewish family.

Tangri attended Los Angeles City College and Reed College. Her dissertation title "Role-innovation in occupational choice among college women" was a longitudinal study involving 200 women from the University of Michigan Class of 1967. She was an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and served on the Council of the Society for the Psychology of Women.

Tangri's marriage to Shanti Tangri ended in divorce.

Tangri received the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology for her 1976 article "A feminist perspective on ethical issues in population programs".

APA Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women) previously awarded the Sandra Schwartz Tangri Memorial Award for Graduate Student Research focusing on issues such as "sexual harassment, discrimination, reproductive rights, concerns of ethnic and sexual minority women and the mentoring of first-generation college students."

Books

Mednick, Martha T.S., Sandra S. Tangri, & Lois W. Hoffman, (Eds.) (1975). Women and achievement: Social and motivational analysis. Hemisphere Publishing Corporation.

Representative publications

Mednick, Martha Shuch; Tangri, Sandra Schwartz (1972). "New Social Psychological Perspectives on Women". Journal of Social Issues. 28 (2): 1–16. Schwartz, Michael; Tangri, Sandra Schwartz (1965). "A Note on Self-Concept as an Insulator Against Delinquency". American Sociological Review. 30 (6): 922–926. Tangri, Sandra Schwartz (1972). "Determinants of Occupational Role Innovation Among College Women". Journal of Social Issues. 28 (2): 177–199. Tangri, Sandra Schwartz (1976). "A Feminist Perspective on Some Ethical Issues in Population Programs". Signs. 1: 895–904. Tangri, Sandra Schwartz (2001). "Some Life Lessons". Psychology of Women Quarterly. 23: 98–102. Tangri, Sandra Schwartz; Burt, Martha R.; Johnson, Leanor B. (1982). "Sexual Harassment at Work: Three Explanatory Models". Journal of Social Issues. 38 (4): 33–54.