THE PROGRESSIVE VERIFICATION METHOD - TOWARD A FEMINIST METHODOLOGY FOR STUDYING WOMEN CROSS-CULTURALLY

Feminists have criticized traditional social science methodology for creating and perpetuating myths that inhibit our understanding of women's experiences and position in society. This article offers a research approach, the Progressive Verification Method, that is grounded in feminist theory and attempts to address the myths of a single, androcentric society; objectivity; historical and cultural abstraction; noninterference; and researcher authority. The method was developed in order to conduct a cross-cultural study of women in Canada. © 1991.