Different Voices or Perfect Storm: Why Are There So Few Women in Philosophy?

Content Diversity, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Post-doctoral, Pre-university Effects, Relevance, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

Author(s)Louise Antony
JournalJournal of Social Philosophy
Thematic Cluster/Special IssueGender, Implicit Bias, and Philosophical Methodology
AbstractWomen are significantly underrepresented in philosophy. Although women garner a little more than half of the PhDs awarded in the United States, and about 53 percent of those awarded in the Arts and Humanities, slightly fewer than 30 percent of doctorates in philosophy are awarded to women. And women’s representation in the professoriate falls below that. Why is philosophy so exceptional in this regard? My aim in this paper is not to answer this question but to contrast two different frameworks for addressing it. I call one model “Different Voices” and the other “The Perfect Storm”; I’ll argue that we ought to adopt the second model and that we ought to abandon the first.
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Date Published September 2, 2012
Volume43
Issue3
Pages227-255
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.2012.01567.x
URLhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9833.2012.01567.x
Google Scholar Linkhttps://scholar.google.ca/scholar?cluster=15566677465459907165&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Open Access?No

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