![]() ![]() There are likely multiple contributing factors, many of which aren’t unique to philosophy: exclusionary professional cultures, unconscious bias from peers and professors, sexual harassment within departments. A 2018 survey of the American Philosophical Association’s membership reported that 25 percent of respondents were women, and one 2017 study similarly found that women made up 25 percent of faculty in U.S. ![]() Though women tend to be overrepresented in the humanities in general, philosophy is an outlier. What it may not call to mind is a woman.Īnd perhaps for good reason: The field of philosophy has always had a stark gender imbalance. ![]() What image does the word philosopher conjure? Maybe Socrates, bearded and barefoot, counseling Plato on the agora Rousseau on one of his solitary walks around the outskirts of Paris Sartre sucking pensively on his pipe at the Café de Flore. ![]()
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