Judith Kleinfeld

{{short description|American psychologist}}

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Judith Smilg Kleinfeld is a professor of psychology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and co-chairs the Northern Studies department.

A controversial[http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i10/10a01401.htm From Alaskan Outpost, Judith Kleinfeld Looks Down on Higher Education]- Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060510164049/http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i10/10a01401.htm |date=May 10, 2006 }} academic, her most well known works are the ones criticizing studies on alleged discrimination in educational settings. Her The Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls{{cite web |url=http://www.uaf.edu/northern/schools/myth.html |title=The Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls, by Judith Kleinfeld |website=www.uaf.edu |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717211114/http://www.uaf.edu/northern/schools/myth.html |archive-date=17 July 2006 |url-status=dead}} analyzed the American Association of University Women's report How Schools Shortchange Girls. Kleinfeld's analysis was first publicized at the Women's Freedom Network, received national attention and was covered by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

She has also criticized{{cite web |url=http://www.uaf.edu/northern/mitstudy/ |title= Judith Kleinfeld: MIT Tarnishes Its Reputation with Gender Junk Science|website=www.uaf.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619215308/http://www.uaf.edu/northern/mitstudy/ |archive-date=June 19, 2006}} a 1999 MIT study that supported claims made by some of the university's female professors that their male colleagues enjoyed preferential treatment despite their level of accomplishments. Kleinfeld called the MIT study "junk science" and pointed out that the committee evaluating the charges was led by the primary complainant and cited the committee's reluctance to open its data to peer review.

Judith Kleinfeld is a member at the Women's Freedom Network and the Independent Women's Forum. She is also director at The Boys Project, a not-for-profit group formed to address the female-male gender gap in educational achievement.

She is married to judge Andrew Kleinfeld. Her family is Jewish.{{Cite news |date=2011-10-24 |title=Rachel Kleinfeld's Truman Project Is Building a New Democratic Foreign-Policy Establishment |language=en-US |work=Tablet Magazine |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/truman-doctrine |access-date=2023-02-20}} She graduated from Wellesley College and Harvard Graduate School of Education.{{cite web | url=https://www.uaf.edu/news/archives/news-archives-2002-2010/a_news/20080221051239.php | title=Kleinfeld receives 2008 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence }}