Philosophers Explicitly Associate Philosophy With Maleness: An Examination of Implicit and Explicit Gender Stereotypes in Philosophy

Book Chapter, Documentation, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Post-doctoral, Quantitative Data, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Chapter Author(s) Laura di Bella; Eleanor Miles; Jennifer Saul
Book/Edited Volume TitleImplicit Bias and Philosophy, Volume 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology
Editor(s)Michael Brownstein; Jennifer Saul
Pages283–308
AbstractUnderlying both implicit bias and stereotype threat explanations for women’s underrepresentation in philosophy is the thought that philosophers are likely to associate philosophy with maleness. The pattern of women’s progression through the profession shows a steady drop-off from undergraduate to postgraduate to employment. Because of this we hypothesized that both men and women would come increasingly to associate philosophy with maleness as they progress in the profession. In this paper we discuss several studies we conducted, which show that the truth is more complicated than this, and involves explicit stereotypes much more than we expected.
Keywordsimplicit stereotype, explicit stereotype, gender, philosophy, implicit bias, stereotype threat
Date Published 2016
PublisherOxford University Press
Volume1
ISBN9780198713241
Google Scholar Linkhttps://scholar.google.ca/scholar?cluster=9850479946624848532&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Open Access?No

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