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Maccoby is best known for her research in developmental pscyhology, her research on gender and sex roles, studies on selective attention, investigations into the impact of divoce on children and was the first woman to chair the Stanford Psychology Department. Eleanor had begun to feel as if her gender was impacting her ability to excel at Harvard which had then turned her to taking the position at Stanford University. Maccoby had always identified as a feminist, but the feminist issues were not always an issue. Until a group of student protesters had publicly announced the salaries of faculty members, which showed Maccoby to be one of the lowest paid faculty on campus. Some of her growth occurred through her participation in sexual harassment issues that were taking place on campus. More of the development had occurred through working side by side with Carol Jacklin who was her post-doctoral student.
Together, they worked on a parent-child interaction project. This project quickly became a topic for debate due to the psychological literature that was being used on the differences between women and men. Both Maccoby and Jacklin had decided to do a systematic review of the literature on gender differences. In asking around, they found that most of these studies had found no gender differences, but the researchers had been unable to publish these findings. Because of the findings, both Maccoby and Jacklin made the executive decision to include as many unpublished studies they could find in an attempt to agree with the
Other work Maccoby completed at [[Stanford University]] consisted of organizing a yearlong faculty seminar on sex differences and edited the book that emerged from this seminar (''The Development of Sex Differences'', Maccoby, 1966).<ref name="AmericanPsychologist1996"/> Maccoby also was involved in a Social Science Research Council that focused on [[socialization]].{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}
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