The Underrepresentation of Women in Prestigious Ethics Journals

Krishnamurthy, Meena; Liao, Shen‐yi; Deveaux, Monique; Dalecki, Maggie

doi:10.1111/hypa.12351

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“…For more on professional performance and participation of women in philosophy, see Irvin (2014) and Schwitzgebel (2015a;2015b;2015c). For more on the representation of women authors in philosophy journals, see West, Jacquet, King, Correll, & Bergstrom (2013), Krishnamurthy (2017), Krishnamurthy, Liao, Deveaux, & Dalecki (2017), Saul (2017), and Schwitzgebel & Jennings (2017).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of the Discipline: New Data on Women Faculty in Philosophy

Conklin¹,

Artamonova²,

Hassoun³

2019

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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This paper presents data on the representation of women at 98 philosophy departments in the United States, which were ranked by the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR) in 2015 as well as all of those schools on which data from 2004 exist. The paper makes four points in providing an overview of the state of the field. First, all programs reveal a statistically significant increase in the percentage of women tenured/ tenure-track faculty, since 2004. Second, out of the 98 US philosophy departments selected for evaluation by Julie Van Camp in 2004, none in 2015 has 50% women philosophy faculty overall, while one has 50% women who are tenured/tenure track. Third, as of 2015, there is a clear pyramidal shape to the discipline: Women are better represented as Assistant than Associate and as Associate than Full professors. Fourth, women philosophy faculty, especially those who are tenured/tenure track, are better represented at Non-PGR ranked programs than at PGR ranked and PGR Top-20 programs in 2015.1. See, e.g., blog posts on www.beingawomaninphilosophy.wordpress.com. 2. We do not take this, in any way, to be an endorsement of the Gourmet Report's methodology or rankings.3. We look at PGR Top-20 versus PGR programs in order to understand whether the apparent differences in the proportions of women are statistically significant and to go beyond on existing The State of the Discipline: New Data on Women Faculty in Philosophy • 843

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of the Discipline: New Data on Women Faculty in Philosophy

Conklin¹,

Artamonova²,

Hassoun³

2019

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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“…And if women are not submitting as much, why is this the case? A recent paper by Krishnamurthy et al (2017) found that women are underrepresented in ethics journals, once we consider the number of women specialising in the given topic. That is, after accounting for the general underrepresentation of women in philosophy, women are still even further underrepresented in top ethics journals.…”

Section: Women In Philosophy Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This has included volumes on women philosophers throughout history (Waithe 1987(Waithe , 1990(Waithe , 1994Atherton 1994;Warnock 1996; Buxton and Whiting 2020). But it has also included pressure from philosophers themselves that aim to change the representation, position, and treatment of women and other marginalised groups within the academy (Tyson 2018;Holroyd and Saul 2018;Beebee andSaul 2021, 2011;Krishnamurthy et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Women in Philosophy: What is to be Done?

Buxton

Whiting

2023

EuJAP

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It is clear that philosophy has a “woman problem”. Despite the recent acceptance of this fact, it is less clear what ought to be done about it. In this paper, we argue that philosophy as a discipline is uniquely well-positioned to think through the marginalisation suffered by women and other minorities. We therefore interrogate two values that already undergird conversations about inclusion— representation and intersectionality—in order to think about the path ahead. We argue that, once we have done so, it becomes clear that the slow pace of improvement over the last few decades is unacceptable and more radical steps need to be taken. First, we outline the current state of women in philosophy focusing on three areas: levels of employment, publishing, and sexual harassment. Then we turn to representation and intersectionality respectively. We conclude by arguing that many women and people of colour have been arguing for a more radically diverse philosophy for many years. What we are facing is a lack of ambition on the one hand and problem of attention on the other.

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“…These journal quotas—both for submission and for acceptance—appear to correspond with the current population of women in philosophy. Since, however, the Journal of Moral Philosophy is a journal that, like Ethics , addresses an area of philosophy in which women are comparatively well represented (see section 3), a submission rate of 23 percent appears in a less positive light (Krishnamurthy et al ; Haslanger , 215). Moreover, the idea that “women ‘just aren’t as interested’ in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and such, .…”

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confidence: 99%

Why So Low?

Leuschner

2019

Metaphilosophy

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Empirical evidence indicates that women philosophers tend to submit their work to journals substantially less often than their male colleagues. This paper points out that this difference in submission behavior comes with other specific aspects of women philosophers’ behavior, such as a tendency to be reluctant to participate in discussions, to be willing to do work low in prestige, and to specialize in certain research topics, and it argues that these differences can be understood as indirect effects of social biases: namely, effects on the working behavior of members of targeted social groups. Recent findings from philosophy journals’ book review sections and from other academic disciplines known to suffer from gender problems, especially from STEM disciplines, lend additional weight to this hypothesis.

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The Underrepresentation of Women in Prestigious Ethics Journals

Cited by 12 publications

References 8 publications

The State of the Discipline: New Data on Women Faculty in Philosophy

The State of the Discipline: New Data on Women Faculty in Philosophy

Women in Philosophy: What is to be Done?

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