"Recently there has been a lot of discussion in our profession (e.g., on philosophy blogs) about the underrepresentation of women in philosophy. Most of the proposed solutions to this problem have focused on problems about, and solutions for, the underrepresentation of female graduate students and professors...However, less attention has been paid to the underrepresentation of women at the undergraduate level—especially before students choose a major. This lack of attention is problematic, since a recent study by Paxton, Figdor, and Tiberius (2012) shows that the most significant drop-off for women in philosophy is between Intro courses and majoring. Given that less than one third of philosophy majors are women, we must address this under-representation in order to increase the proportion of female grad students and professors in philosophy."
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:28:14 +0000
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