Open Science and Feminist Ethics: Promises and Challenges of Open Access

Open science advocates argue that making data sets, studies, methodologies, and other aspects of research free from publication fees and available to scholars will increase collaborations, access, and dissemination of knowledge. In this article, I argue that open access policies and practices raise both feminist and ethical issues. I reflect on the five themes of feminist ethics identified 20 years ago by a task force of the Society for the Psychology of Women. I update the themes with recent scholarship of feminist philosophers and ethicists, and I use the themes to raise questions about the promises and challenges of open access. Throughout, I offer suggestions for all who seek to make knowledge of human psychology more complete and more accessible to more people. I conclude by offering recommendations informed by feminist ethics to those building the policies and practices of open access.

THE CHILD BETWEEN THE GLOBALIZATION CULTURE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN

This article aims to focus on the upbringing and education of the child in light of globalization, especially with the changes brought about by the latter at various levels, including the changes that affected the family, especially the psychological aspect of women after leaving for work, enjoyment of economic independence, and their participation in cultural life and others. All this led her to double her efforts. This reflected negatively on the woman’s psyche and thus also its reflection on the upbringing of her children, especially that women play the main role in forming the personality of their child, as they gain behaviors and habits as well as instill values in line with the society in which they live, but the process of socialization seemed more difficult and more complex. In an era in the light of globalization and technology, especially that there are changes that touched the psychology of the mother and the role of the family, which has a responsibility to teach the inculcation of values and the development of trends and have become contested by cultural media.